Bill,
thanks for your reply. How do I configure? Where do I
go? I got a response from macmillan and they led me
thru the editing of the conf.modules file. Now when I
look at one of the configuration programs that show
what is attached to what, it looks as if there is some
type of recognition of the PCI adaptor. My fears are:
1- I saw a USB line with the same IRQ of 9 .
2- The driver is out dated.
In any case maybe configuring it will work. But, in
any case drakeconf (or whatever it is called) shows no
device in the network adaptor section. That concerns
me.
Anyways If you could just point me to how I might
configure it, it would be helpful. It is a dynamic IP
address if that matters.
Thanks Again,
Doug
--- Bill Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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