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

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, none ofyerbizness wrote:

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

You have installed the drivers.
You must now configure your system for networking.

To verify that the driver is installed, do
  modprobe tulip
and use 'dmesg' to see the detection message.

Note that your later attempts may have overwritten the proper driver.

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

This simply means that you never configured eth0 as a networking
interface, not that eth0 doesn't exist.

> > >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?)

Red Hat 7.0 was released long after the updated driver that supports the
Comet was available.  They didn't include the current driver for ...
"non-technical reasons".

> > >4. cat /proc/pci returns the following:
> > >Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.

This is an ADMtek Comet/Centaur chip.
The design is less than two years old, but it is very common.

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