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 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
> 
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> 
> 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.
>>> 
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>>> pickles at you? -- Real Genius
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