Linksys LNE100TX NIC, can't get it to work.

[Xprotocol]

I have a Linksys LNE100TX ethernet card that I'm having trouble getting to work with Debian. I follow the instructions but after doing my fist make, I get some wierd modversion.h error. Don't ask me for any info that I can only get from X cause I can't get that to work either :P. Any help on getting my NIC to work would be great, thanks.

[bdg1983]

Nothing in the NHF here (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/linksys_LNE100TX.html) that helps?

Did you also search the forums for LNE100TX. Seems to be a popular subject here.

[Gaccm]

did you compile support for it in the kernel?

[ep0k]

Just did a bit of searching for your problem on the web and found some stuff that might help...

http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html

http://www.linksys.com/support/kb.asp?kbid=116

latest version of tulip.c (ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.c)

Another Linksys page about tulip.. (http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=25)

I haven't used a Linksys card in a machine so for all i know these sights might not help but that last one seemed to have a good walk through about re-compliling the kernal for the latest tulip driver... Good luck.

[Gnu/Vince]

Mine has always worked perfectly.
-Recompile kernel with Tulip as a module (make sure you have the appropriate version of modutils)
-Reboot
-modprobe tulip
-ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
-ping 192.168.1.1
-et voilà

[Hatecrime69]

isa/pci? pnp? i just got my network card to work (a isa) by disableing pnp through the card's utilities (for me, the bios pnp doesn't do anything at all)

[DMR]

I'm not much of a programmer, but I know that if the makefile references the modversion.h header file, but can't find it on your system, the compile will fail.
A quick search at www.dogpile.com (http://www.dogpile.com) for "modversion.h" returns a few Debian-related hits that may help.Also, if you can post the exact error message, it might shed more light on the problem.

Good Luck

[Kid98]

Just a thought: did you build the pci-scan module too? The new tulip driver wants it to be installed too I believe. Details are at Scyld.com Mine would not work till I used the new pci-scan.c to build a pci-scan module. But I am running RH. 6.1, so YMMV

Good luck and keep us posted!

Kid

[complication]

If you didn't install the tulip module during your install, just do "modconf" and load the tulip driver. Ping 127.0.0.1 to check if it's loaded right (in case your network settings are wrong), and then go from there.

Good luck.

[Xprotocol]

Thanks for for the help, I guess I'll give it a shot. Man just getting a simple NIC to work with Linux is a pain in the butt. The box even has a sticker on it that says "tested with linux". Yet I can throw in a 3com using RH and I don't have to tell the computer squat, just the IP to use or in my case DHCP. Just a silly world :p.