Ethernet Card

[misled]

Hi Everyone,

Just did my first install and boot into Red Hat Linux 8.0. Everything went well intill I got to the sound testing (nothing came out) but thats not important at the moment. Once I got to the main screen, I tried to load Modzilla and access the internet but no luck. So I try to add a new ethernet connection thing and my device isnt in the list. Any ideas? I have a Linksys LNE100tx ethernet card.

Thanks

[mdwatts]

Redhat 8.0 should not have any problems with the Linksys LNE100tx.

Ensure you have PnP OS disabled in the bios.

Also have a look through the recent threads in the General forum as there are a couple on ethernet card problems which do offer suggestions on what to check.

[DMR]

The LNE100TX should use the tulip module; if you don't see a specific reference to the card itself, just choose the tulip driver as the module to use.

[misled]

I'm glad to hear that my card is compatiable with RH. Ok, I've disabled PnP OS, no luck there. DMR, What is tulip? Sorry for being so ignorant, but I really have 0 experince here. What I've done so far is 1) Internet Connection Wizard 2) Setup "Other Ethernet Device". From there, I had to select a card from a list. I didn't find mine, so I selected D-link 6000/Linksys something, as that was the closest thing I could find to mine. Then it gives me options to configure with dhcp,irq, and a few other options. When thats all said and done it brings me up to a screen where it displays it as inactive. So of course I click activate and thats where the problems occur. It says unable to activate and then im am stuck. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Can I post of my files here for you all to look at? (If so I'd need directions on how to do that :D :D ). Also, as I look under Hardware Browser, I can see my device. "Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100", Manufact. Linksys, Driver - Tulip, Device - /dev/eth.


Thanks

[mdwatts]

This is one of those threads (http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76808) I was referring to earlier.

Ignore the reference to eth1 and you only need to use eth0.

First

lsmod (list loaded modules)

to see if tulip is loaded.

If not, then

modprobe tulip

to load.

[misled]

Good news and Bad news. When logged in under Root, I can type modprobe Tulip in the terminal. When I relog in as my main user, it comes up and tells me " Could not look up internet address for "x1-6-00-04-5a-7c-4a-c4" This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct this by adding x1-6-00-04-5a-7c-4a-c4 to the file /etc/hosts/." After I get past this screen, I can use the internet and everything just fine, untill I reboot. Once I reboot I have to go through this process all over again to get it to work. My question is.. (stupid question).. How do I put the "x1-6-00-04-5a-7c-4a-c4" in my /etc/hosts/ file-folder? Do I need to use some program like notepad/wordpad like in windows for example?:confused:


Also one last thing, when I am in my terminal it says "Root@x1-6-00-04-5a-7c-4a-c4 root-.. How do you guys get those cool unique names? :p

[mdwatts]

Add

alias eth0 tulip

to /etc/modules.conf and also add/modify

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost x1-6-00-04-5a-7c-4a-c4

to /etc/hosts.

If you are using Gnome, then use one of the included gui text editors.