If I understand correctly, you have a Netgear card that uses the tulip.o driver and it's having trouble (if this is not true, then feel free to ignore the rest of the message). I don't have the machine in front of me right now, but if I remember correctly, the tulip.o driver would not load unless I loaded pci-scan.o first.
insmod pci-scan insmod tulip was what I did. Additionally, I think it worked best to put a line in my /etc/modules.conf like: alias eth0 tulip If anyone from Mandrake is listening: I tried to use this card (the Netgear using tulip.o driver) for a MDK SNF firewall. The boot image had the tulip driver but not the pci-scan driver so the install would not autodetect the card. I don't know enough yet to configure the card post-install to work with the web interface provided so I finally pulled the Netgear card and replaced it with a 3Com 3c59x, reinstalled and it worked like a charm. Admittedly, I am not an expert on this area (linux network drivers), but it seems that the pci-scan should be included in the boot image. Perhaps this was specific to my config though. I have had great success with Mandrake 8.x. I am not yet a Linux expert, but I am working on it. Your excellent distribution allows me to focus on the parts that I am interested in rather than things that I am not. I recently installed and configured the OpenLDAP server and got it to respond using your packages and a tutorial I found on the net. Keep up the good work. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002.01.23 09:11:45 >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Dewar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC > the only thing that comes to mind right away is IRQ conflict. > something bizarre with IRQ sharing perhaps? > dunno. > > do a cat /proc/interrupts > > though, i guess that may not reveal much now since the situation has been > resolved. > > glad that you got it working. > Hello and thanks for your answer Something terrible has happened ;-) I used mdk-update to get the latest mdk rpm for gpg. By the way, I downloaded all updates available... and now my system doesn't boot any more. I decided then to try debian again, as I have backups of my personnal datas. This IS off-topic (this is a mandrake list !), I know, but: I'm now facing the same problems with my NIC: insmod ok, ifconfig ok, but no traffic. Dmesg shows repeting lines like "switching [...] to half-duplex" (around one line every 2 seconds). /proc/interrupts shows no conflict. I'm willing to try the sound card thing, but: insmod awe-wave ok, but dmesg says "no awe found" (I have an isa awe32) there is no sndconfig on my system I will be eternally grateful to anybody who will help me ! TIA, and regards from Paris Fran�ois
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