Hi Jay:
I posted this very same question about 3 weeks ago (no answer at all) and, as
well, to Linuxcare a week ago as an installation incident requiring support.
No help so far.
Yesterday I installed SuSE 6.2 with the same results, posted a query and got
good answers back in about 3 hours.
Yes, there was a discussion on 2/5/00. It alluded to 3 different drivers for
tulip based cards. Unfortunately, the discussion didn't include any help on
how to
substitute one of these drivers. They were named tulip-old.o, tulip.o,
DE4x5.o.
What follows is the discussion I had on the SuSE list and maybe we can get
something from that.
Found the tulip-new.o and tulip.o in /lib/modules/2.2.10/net.
>===== Original Message From Tim Duggan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . >IIRC
in 6.2 there is a tulip.o and a tulip-new.o where
>6.3 has tulip-old.o and tulip.o. I know that some cards, like the
>Linksys etherfast version 2 need the newer module where the older
>version 1 cards can use the older one.
Then Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> furnished the rest of the solution by pointing
to
configuration file '/etc/conf.modules' that names the driver to be used.
I simply edited /etc/conf.modules 'alias eth0 tulip' to 'alias eth0
tulip-new'.
Now, /lib/modules/2.2.10/net is a SuSE directory.
Here we need a little help from Mandrake.
Mandrake 6.1 (look at 7.0) uses /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdkxx and there are
several of these, each with a sub-directory 'net'. So there are multiple lists
of NIC drivers but I couldn't find any entry for 'tulip-old' or whatever the
alternative driver is in any of these lists. So, we need two things.
1. Which of the /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdkxx/net directories is referenced in
/etc/conf.modules?
2. Where can we get a copy of tulip-whatever.o?
Then copy that tulip driver to the appropriate .../net directory and edit the
/etc/conf.modules file to 'alias eth0 tulip-whatever'.
Hope this puts both of us in business. Sure worked on my SuSE machine. Will
be interested in your results.
Bill Barnes
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>When using Mandrake 7.0 after install, it fails to access the
>network. ifconfig reads that my mask, IP and broadcast addresses are
>correct and my default route is set correctly through route. The light on
>my hub fails to light up though. My card works in RedHat 6-6.2 and just
>for some reason doesn't want to work in Mandrake. DrakX successfully found
>my card and in bootup it says it is starting up eth0. Any ideas on how to
>remedy this problem?
>
>Jay
>
>Jayson Baird - Kansas State University ==== CNS UNIX Administrator
>"My only skill as a programmer is twisted cleverness..'Click mouse to
>continue *click* release to detonate.'"
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