Re: networking problem during install

[Bob Galloway <bob@de-fac.to>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:51:20AM -0400, dman wrote:
> tulip driver ... I've heard stories from some people that older tulip
> drivers don't work with certain newer cards.  What NIC are you using?
> Personally I've never had any problems with the tulip driver starting
> with version 0.90 and a Linksys LNE100TX rev2.0.

That's my card, too.  I also used a NetGear card, with the same sad results.
Both are newish, AFAIK... only a year or two old.

> |       It tells me that ICMP is an "unknown protocol."  That'd probably
> |       explain the lack of ping, but not the lack of TCP.
> 
> Actually, TCP uses ICMP respones for things such as "Destination
> unreachable".  If you can't get ICMP packets in then you will never
> get any TCP error messages, just timeouts.

Huh.  I've always meant to learn more low-level TCP.  Thanks for the tip.

> Do you have the installation stuff on the NFS export?  It may be
> easier to download rescue and root floppies from the potato installers
> and do a network install.  You'd be using a 2.2 kernel then.

I considered doing that, but thought that fighting with floppies a
second time would be more trouble than it was worth.  That was many
hours ago... I'll give it a go with potato.

(Oooh.  That rhymes.)

Thanks

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Bob Galloway                  You're so meta.