Re: more Have Netgear FA310TX eth0 card/trying to set apt source
I can't even get my NIC recognized. It doesn't seem to be even using the
tulip driver, according to lsmod, even though the driver seems to be
loading.
What is tcpdump and what does it do?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Juranich" <sjuranic@ssli-mail.ee.washington.edu>
To: "Sivea Key" <siveakey@attbi.com>
Cc: "Kevin C. Smith" <smithkevinc@mchsi.com>; "Debian List"
<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: more Have Netgear FA310TX eth0 card/trying to set apt source
> When I installed potato on my new computer, I had a terrible time with the
> tulip driver (2.2r6, or was it r5?). I had to bring my computer in to
work,
> me and one of the sysadmins figured out that the driver was buggy. After
I
> rebuilt the kernel, everything worked just fine.
>
> The problem I was experience was that I wasn't getting any DHCPOFFERs from
my
> ISP. Actually, I probably was getting them, but tcpdump didn't show any.
The
> same computer worked fine under M$, though (well, as fine as any computer
> using M$ can work).
>
> Have you used tcpdump on the interface yet? Is your NIC hearing anything
at
> all? My problem was that it was broadcasting fine, but it wouldn't
receive.
> If that's the case, a kernel rebuild might be worth the effort.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stephen W. Juranich sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
> Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
> University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli
>
>
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