Newbie with 21142 card and 10Mbps hub

[coleman@hbar.stanford.edu]

I am a total linux newbie hoping I can find some 
friendly advice here. I've been trying for two weeks
to get linux up and running on an Athelon box with
a DEC 21142 ethernet card connected to a 10Mbps hub
connected to an ADSL modem. The partition light on the
hub stays lit up and I can't connect to the net. The Win98
and BeOS partitions on the same machine have no problem
connecting, so all the hardware works. After trying Corel
Linux for a while, I reformatted the disk and installed
Red Hat 6.0 last night, hoping that would fix it, but the
problem remains.

I've done extensive Web and news searches and tried
various suggestions I've found there. I've looked at
books and the Ethernet HOW-TO, checked through the last 8
months of the linux-tulip list archives on tux.org, gotten
tulip-diag and run it.  I suspect that the problem might be
that tulip is set to 100Mbps while the hub can only
handle 10Mbps, since others seem to have had similar
problems. 

So I've tried to do my homework but I've gotten beyond my depth.
I'm confused about just how to go about fixing this. I don't
know how to test which version of the driver I have (0.91? 0.89??),
know how to interpret the results of tulip-diag, how to load
the module with the right media type, whether I should recompile
the kernel or the tulip driver, and if so, how...

So, in a nutshell, my question is:  can somebody tell me how
to get tulip to run with a 10Mbps hub, in step-by-step directions?
I do know basic Unix command-line and text-editing stuff, and my
husband uses gcc at work, but we don't know which files to edit
or compile or which commands to run with which options. 

Thanks and regards,

Michele Coleman



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