Thanks to all who replied! My network is working fine right now. appearenty none of the drivers on the cd will work with a FA311 (I could be wrong, but i tried to find one), so I compiled a new one from http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html, called natsemi (National Semiconductor)
I was very happy after working at it for a long time. I set Debain up on another box (pIII board w/ built in intel NIC, etherexpress pro 100) with no major problems. I like the package management in Debian a lot (this is the first time I have used Debian), but I will have to look into some more of its features. This, of course, was a very short version of what I went through. I had to install the kernel headers package and put its include directory as a "-I" parameter to the gcc compile command for the driver module. I also had to do the same thing for pci-scan module (at same website). I hope someone else may find this useful as well. Thanks again, Jeff Davis Jeff Davis wrote: > I have been reading docs all day but I cannot figure this one out. Note > that I am used to Redhat/Mandrake, and I don't know as much as I would > like to about Debian. > > I have a Netgear 10/100 card. I am sure it works, and I have used the > same type of card with other distros. In it's "linux.txt" it describes > an object file called "tulip.o", which I assume to be the same as in the > Debian distro (I am using 2.2). I tried first to do "modprobe tulip" and > I get an error from insmod (I think modprobe is just a higher-level > version of insmod, but I am not sure of this. I tried both) like "device > or resource busy" and then something about how I might try changing the > parameters. > > I have no /dev/eth* devices at all in my system. When I try to load the > tulip module during the initial install I get the same insmod error (but > before it asks for parameters). > > I recorded the CDs, so I am not sure of their integrity. I tried copying > files, etc, but it won't be easy to get the good CDs (I think the > downloaded ISOs should be correct) until I have network access. > > I half expected Debian to see the card immediately and to work > automatically. I was somewhat surprised to see no eth devices, and more > surprised when I couldn't just load the module to use it. > > I added a few modules during the setup, including ip_masq modules and > more notably "traffic shaper". Could these be conflicting? I tried > removing them and inserting the other, but no effect. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I like Debian so far, but > I haven't seen much :) > > Regards, > Jeff Davis > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
