Marcia The tulip driver supplied with Mandrake 9.0 is already version 0.9.14 (released Feb20 2001)
You can see this if you take a look at /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl It may simply be that the system does not realise that your card needs the tulip driver. Just try typing in a root terminal modprobe tulip and see what happens. derek On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 4:12 am, Marcia wrote: > Hello All, > > My ethernet card was not detected or configured in LM 9 and I am having a > time getting it going. This is a Compaq Presario 1700T with the compaq > (conexant) 10/100 nic and I am using the Toshiba cable modem with the usb > hookup. This worked without any configuration on my part in 8.2 but for > some reason LM 9 is not figuring this out yet. I downloaded tulip 0.9.14 > since I thought that might work better, but I have no idea how to install. > I am a newbie with these things so I really do not understand the > directions. This seems to require altering the Makefile which I do not know > the first thing about. Here are the directions: > > The Linux tulip driver > > To build the driver > > cd src > > vi Makefile. #put your kernel settings here > > make > > To build the diagnostics program: > > cd diag > make > > I understand that you are supposed to open the Makefile in the vi editor > and then #put your kernel settings here? This part I do not understand. > What kernel settings and where exactly in the Makefile do they go? I will > happily send the full contents of the Makefile if someone is willing to > show me exactly what to do with it. > > Thanks for any help with this. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia
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