see my posts in the archive. subject: linksys etherfast 10/100 card - solved see if my solution works for you. Gavin on 9/22/00 12:36 AM, Michael wrote: > Well I bought a stack of these cards as we are setting up a lot of new > machines and they were $20 each and I've had good luck with Linksys > before.. they are also stamped Linux tested. Unfortunately they came with > very little in the way of sueful documentation and thus far none of them > have worked out of the box with any version of Linux I've tried (now > standing at Suse 6.2, 6.4, and 6.4 PPC as well as RedHat 6.2 and Mandrake > 7). On the Suse machines I spent quite some time trying to recompile the > tulip drivers. Often the drivers would not compile at all and when they > did they still didn't work. Do you know any way other than trial and error > to find the right version? The problem I'm told is the new WOL support. :P > > *^*^*^* > Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes > on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little > pickles at you? -- Real Genius > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Craig Woods wrote: > >> Michael, >> >> The Linksys takes a driver called tulip, and the trick is to get the right >> version for your card. There several Linksys chips, and several versions of >> the tulip out there. The driver must match your chip. You might have to >> complile the tulip for your system. I have the Linksys running very nicely on >> my NT Server but I have been unable to get the tulip to load in any version >> of >> Mandrake that I have running, i.e. V7.0 and V7.1. Let me know how you >> progress. >> >> Craig >> >> Michael wrote: >> >>> I can't seem to get my old 3com Etherlink III 3c509b ISA combo PnP card to >>> work. Has anyone managed? I also have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX >>> v4.1 that I'm going to try. Has anyone gotten that one to work? It is >>> supposed to be Linux compat but hasn't worked on any of my SuSE or RedHat >>> machines yet. >>> >>> *^*^*^* >>> Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes >>> on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little >>> pickles at you? -- Real Genius >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: >>> Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >> >> >> > > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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