I've found the stock mandrake tulip driver doesnt like my linksys or
kingston nics. I've always
had to upgrade the driver to v.89h or v.91g before i could get my connect
working.
At 11:03 AM 8/21/00 -0700, you 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.
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>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.
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>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
>
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>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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