Tried the 3.0.21-2002-03-25 floppies. Still no luck. The 6400's PCI bus must be strange territory for the kernel used on the floppies: neither the PCI-attached ethernet card nor the USB card are mentioned in dmesg.
-B... >> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:46:50PM -0600, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. wrote: >>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:59:34PM -0600, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. wrote: >>> [... Snip ...] >>> >>>> I have this network card, but I'm using a 2.4.X kernel. >>>> Is the card already being used by ng_tulip compiled into the kernel? >>>> What does dmesg say? >>>> >>>> Another suggestion maybe to download the tulip driver source, pci-scan(?) >>>> from <http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html>. >>>> >>>> Anthony >>> >>> It's a chicken-and-egg problem. I can't get anything to recognize the card. >>> But I'm hoping to do a net install. So I can't get at dmesg yet -- Linux >>> isn't installed. Unless you know of some tricks I don't. >> >> dmesg is available in the installer. > > Thanks for the tip about dmesg in the installer. I don't know why I was just > assuming that it wouldn't be there. > > dmesg reports that the card isn't detected. There is one line about PCI, > "PCI: Probing PCI hardware", and then a line about adb devices. That's it. > Absolutely no mention of the network card. This same card works beautifully > in Mac OS on this machine, and in other machines under LinuxPPC (I haven't > installed any other Linux distros on this machine). > >> When you configured the kernel modules in the installer, did you configure >> a tulip driver? > > I tried to configure ng_tulip. That's what started this whole thread. > > -B... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
