Tulip support is almost surely part of the kernel tree Slackware provides.
Look (in make menuconfig) under
Network device support --->
Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support
I just checked this on an old Debian host that still runs 2.2.13.
The Kensington card I have (don't recall the exact model number) does use
tulip. I needed to switch to a newer version of tulip to make it work, but
that was with a 2.0.x kernel -- I'd expect the version included with 2.2.13
to be new enough.
There is no compelling reason to compile NIC support into a kernel, though
there is probably no urgent reason not to either. The tulip driver
autoprobes, so all you would need to do (using it as a module) is add an
entry for it to (if I recall Slackware's init setup correctly)
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules . Surely the stock Slackware kernels include a tulip.o
module.
At 11:38 AM 7/8/00 -0400, Charles E. Gelm wrote:
>Howdy, All:
>
> I've just installed Slackware-7.0 - kernel 2.2.13.
>But I'm lost at where to find information about getting the
>kernel to recognize my NIC. It is a Kingston KNE110TX.
>I think that it may be a 'tulip'. I've browsed at Kingston
>and get refered to another web page and after some more browsing
>I found 'tulip.c' v0.92.
>
> Is this what I need?
>If yes, where do I put 'tulip.c'?
>How do I generate 'tulip.o' and where should it reside?
>
>I want to use this box as an IP Masquerade and Samba file server.
>I'd rather compile the NIC driver into the kernel instead of
>installing it as a module. I didn't see this NIC mentioned
>while doing a 'make config'.
>
>How do I include this NIC driver into my kernel?
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