Linksys Etherfast NIC; Mandrake 7.2; Tulip.o; Still not working!

[eyor]

I downloaded the tulip driver package and installed it, it put the tulip.o in the right place, but when I try to do the command to install it it doesnt work! What am I doing wrong?
I have read all of the threads, but they did not help.

Also, I downloaded the kpackage file on my windows box and brough it over on a floppy. could this have messed it up? even though it was the rpm or whatever file?

[Craig McPherson]

What kind of message do you get when you do "modprobe tulip"?

[§ilhouette]

What do you mean by "do the command to install it"? Exactly what are you typing? If you change directories to where you copied the tulip.o file to, and type 'insmod tulip.o' do you get any errors back? If not, then what happens when you type 'lsmod'? Can you see the tulip.o module in the list of loaded modules? Be a little bit more specific and I'm sure we'll be able to help you.

[i8degrees]

hello, what exact model of this linksys card do you have? i had a linksys lne100tx v.41 and it said it used tulip drivers... but i tried over and over again trying to get the thing to detect, never could get it... its false advertisement--it says 3 times that it has been tested with linux... so if you can't get this linksys card working, i would strongly recommend getting this card that worked for me without any config... netgear FA310TX model, its a cheap $20 dollar card that uses tulip driver.

[johnwebb]

I have the Linksys LNE100TX V4.x installed on several Red Hat Linux boxs. Take a look at this URL, it has download links to the needed files, and instrucions on how to compile.
http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html#single

Instead of using 'install' I just moved the new modules (pci_scan.o, tulip.o) to /lib/modules/2.2.xx/net and rebooted.

[snowgod]

I just bought a linksys lne100tx card because it was "linux compatible" but I also could not get it up and running, so I finally gave up and moved from mandrake 7.2 to stormlinux, and I also put that card into my windows box and took my 3com card and put it into the linux box, and I must say as a side note, apt-get is cool as hell

[eyor]

I did the command that the first poster said to do, and it seems to have worked... but how do I install the card now? and then how do I get onto the internet? I am using a router to network my other computers and share broadband internet access...

[eyor]

can someone tell me what to do now?

[voivode]

One way that you might easily solve your driver problem is with a kernel upgrade to 2.4.0.

**this is all assuming that you have some other way to download and access the kernel, such as a dual boot system, et cetera**

In the section where you may select which network card you have, select support for the DEC Tulip chipset (I believe it's listed as generic support, and the 'help' option will mention Linksys cards).

It's worked like a charm for me, and hopefully it'll solve your network card woes.

[This message has been edited by voivode (edited 26 January 2001).]

[jbstew32]

i just got the same card and had it running in 5 minutes tops http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif All i did was insmod tulip
I am on Slackware 7.1 with Kernel 2.4 and it works great. Even Roaring Penguin is set up and doing great http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[dante_d]

I followed the instructions for installing my tulip drivers for a linksys LNE100TX on the www.scyld.com (http://www.scyld.com) site.

Everything was fine and the modules were loaded ok but I could not get it to go online until I also did the following:

Edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
to use DHCP:

DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
BROADCAST=
NETWORK=
NETMASK=
IPADDR=

Edited /usr/sysconfig/network
to use DHCP

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
DOMAINNAME=localdomain
FORWARD IPV4=false (note: the instructions I found said to say yes for this, but this is what mine says)
GATEWAYDEV=
GATEWAY=

Then I restarted the network:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

This is based on using DHCP for ADSL access from a stand-alone machine. I thought I'd put this in here because I didn't see these instructions anywhere else (these are from my notes, I forget where I found the instructions) and my ethernet card was a paperweight until I did it.

[kuber]

That card is a piece of ****. I bought one and realized soon after. Go pick up a 3com card, 900 series.

[javageek1]

It's actually not that hard to get the card running, you just have to do a little research.

In RedHat 7.0 I do this...

tar zxvf netdrivers.tgz

make

copy pci-scan.o and tulip.o to the /lib/modules/*forgot*/net directory, forgot what the third folder was!?!

/sbin/depmod -a

add this to /etc/modules.conf:

alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=3 debug=1

shutdown -r now

run netcfg

works fine!

Should be very similare in Mandrake, if not I got all my info from the floppies readme.txt file and from Linksys's website. Just switching to a different card is the easy way out... :D