[tulip-bug] Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card

[none ofyerbizness]

I tried the --force option and received no visible
errors. Then tried depmod -a and rebooted and still
no ethernet recognized.

I got the drivers disk that came with the Linksys
ethernet card and tried to compile their code using
kgcc (I just changed a line in their Makefile). 
It gave tnos of warnings such as 
warning: 'synchronize_bh' redefined
warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for
.modinfo

It did produce some .o object files though.

Then, following their advice, I did:
insmod pci-scan.o
insmod tulip.o
depmod -a
ifup eth0

the ifup eth0 gives me a usage error:
usage: ifup <device name>

Am I missing some crucial step to have this
eth0 device recognized? I have only done
exactly what I mentioned in these emails
since installing linux this morning.

1. tried rpm with the file provided on scyld.com
2. used rpm -i --force on the same rpm file
3. compiled and tried to install modules from
the linksys installation floppy


--- Donald Harter <dharter@lycos.com> wrote:
>  The documentation tells how to compile for RedHat
> 7._  That version of RedHat uses an experimental
> compiler.  There is another compiler present also
> which is the one you want to use.  I think it is
> named kgcc.
> The conflict is probably the tulip.o module that you
> want to use from the rpm and the one that is
> compiled from the kernel.  You could give it a rpm
> --force option so that it overwrites it.  You could
> also save the old one before you do that.  Then you
> would not have to worry about compiling your own
> module.
> 
> --
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:16:49  
>  none ofyerbizness wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm pretty new to Linux and managed to install my
> PCI
> >modem so far but now I am stuck on the NIC
> >installation.
> >
> >Here's what I've done so far.
> >
> >1. Already had Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 EtherFast
> >10/100 LAN Card version 4 in the machine.
> (According
> >to the Red Hat HCL, version 4 may be incompatible
> with
> >red hat linux 7.x and that's what I am trying to
> find
> >out. Should I give up and get a different brand of
> >ethernet cards?)
> >
> >
> >2. Installed Red Hat Linux 7.0 (kernel is
> 2.2.16-22)
> >and I installed everything. No ethernet card was
> >detected during linux installation even though it
> was
> >there and works fine with the dual-booting Win 95 I
> >have on the machine to test such things. So there
> was
> >no ethernet/network setup done during the
> installation
> >of linux.
> >
> >
> >3. /sbin/lspci returns the following:
> >
> >...
> >00:0d.0 Ethernet Controller: Bridgecom, Inc:
> Unknown
> >device 0985 (rev 11)
> >...
> >
> >(where ... denote listings for other devices)
> >
> >
> >4. cat /proc/pci returns the following:
> >
> >...
> >Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device
> >(rev 17).
> >Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
> >Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9.
> >Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=255.Max
> Lat=255.
> >I/O at 0xf000 [f001].
> >Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfffbe800
> >[0xfffbe800].
> >Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
> >...
> >
> >5. rpm -i netdrivers-rh70.i386.rpm (i just
> downloaded
> >this file from your site)
> >
> >This returned a bunch of conflict messages, eg:
> >
> >file /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/tulip.o from
> install
> >of netdriver-2.1-2 conflicts with file from package
> >kernel-2.2.16-22
> >
> >Should this netdrivers-rh70.i386.rpm install the
> >module /driver for this card and persist it so it
> will
> >be there whenever i reboot?
> >
> >
> >6. dmesg | grep eth0 returns nothing.
> >
> >
> >Can someone tell me step by step how to get this
> >ethernet card recognized and configured?
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Chameleon
> >- Still working from Windows 2000...
> >
> >
> >p.s. i also tried following instructions found on
> the
> >linksys site and in a couple of books...
> >
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