Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:42:19AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote:
| Overall, I love Debian as an OS. I've used it many times in a work
| environment, and apt-get simply rules. However, I have yet to
| successfully install Debian on one of my home machines. Here is the
| situation:
|
| I have 5 different ethernet cards without a permanent home: 4 different
| Tulip variants, and a Netgear FA311. I'm trying to get these to work on
| Debian 2.2r2. I am unable to get 2.2r3 because A) my CDRW on my Windoze
| box just died, and B) I can't get this machine to work with any ethernet
| card I have, so installing over the network is not an option.
I'm curios as to the what your tulip variants are. I have heard some
mention on this list that the tulip driver with kernel 2.2 (or maybe
it was just with potato) doesn't work. I, OTOH, have a tulip card and
have never had problems (starting with RH5.2, kernel 2.0.36). My card
is a LinkSys LNE100TX rev 2.0 (Lite-On made the actual tulip chip).
I don't remember where, but there was somewhere that one could get a
different version of the tulip driver that was supposed to work fine.
Another possibility would be to buy 1 more NIC that is know for sure
to work and upgrade to woody from that. Some NICs can be bought for
about $15. The Netgear, Linksys, and DLink ISA cards all work (NE2000
clones). I think the model for the netgear is FA310 or maybe FA312 (I
have 2 of them in 486 boxes and they are fine -- just boot to DOS
first to disable PnP).
| insmod tulip
| ifconfig eth0 inet 10.1.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255
| ifconfig eth0 up
| ping 10.1.1.1
|
| And everything worked fine! It was great! So I decided to re-install the
| system, and configure everything I wanted.
If this works fine, why re-install? Just store the settings in
/etc/interfaces and /etc/modutils/aliases. If this works you could
start the network connection manually, then use apt to upgrade to
woody over the network.
HTH,
-D
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