Doug,
I had difficulty myself with the drivers, but here's the basic answer.
The tulip.o module is loaded from the conf.modules file in the /etc
directory.
If you have loaded a different driver for your ethernet card (working or
not), you should see a line that looks something like this:
alias eth0 somedriver
Change that to be the tulip driver by changing the driver name to the
name of the file without the .o extension:
alias eth0 tulipdrivername
I can't remember the name off-hand, but if it's not just "tulip", it may
be "tulip_cs" or something like that.
Being PCI it should configure and run from there.
You will also have to edit the ip address, gateway, etc parameters for
it to start working, but that can be covered once you know the driver
has loaded.
As to your yes/no questions, the only one not obviously answered above
would be do you have to be root to do this.
I think here the answer is yes. You could "su" from command line and
edit it that way, but I'm pretty sure you have to have root permissions
to write the changes to the file.
Hope that helps...
--
Bill Fry
IT Director,
Young & Roehr Group
503.222.0626
DougC wrote:
> Hello all,
> I installed 7.1 yesterday but during configuration, it
> did not list my 10/100 Linksys Ethernet card for my
> cable modem ( not a PMCIA card - just a regular card).
> Overall though,the install went generally well.
>
> Linux seems to know it's a PCI ethernet card, just not
> what kind. I skipped this portion and now I have no
> internet connection.
> I went to the linksys website and they explained that
> the on-board (already in linux) 'tulip.o' driver is
> compatible and should work.
>
> How does one exactly 'load' this tulip.o driver?
> I found this file buried under a bunch of subdirs.
>
> Some YES/No Questions:
> 1- Must I be at Admin level to do this step?
> 2- Will any command line 'screen' allow me to do this
> ?
> 3- Must I be in the subdir where the tulip.o
> file/driver is located.
> 4- Are there straight forward command to load it?
>
> If anyone can detail what I need to do I would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> FYI-I have been using the KDE interface.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Doug Conrad
>
> PII-350 96 megs ram
> ATI 8 meg video card
> Lynksys 10/100 PCI ethernet card (cable modem) IRQ9
> Has Dual Boot with boot magic/master? I forget name
> On board Crystal sound (doesn't work yet on linux)
>
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