mandrake 7.2 and @home

[pizza_man]

I'm dual booting linux and Me. Seems to work fine, except for the all important internet connection. Mandrake can't seem to detect my network cards. The @home card is linksys 10/100 v.4 and my home network card is netgear. I've tried pretty much everything I could think of so far, from the suggestion in NHF here to disabling pnp to pump. I'm afraid I'm trying to learn to swim in the ocean, but hey, is there any other way? Thanks in advance for any and all help rendered!

[ 19 February 2001: Message edited by: pizza_man ]

[TheMightyNewbie]

from what I could find the driver for your linksys card can be found here: ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.c

you need to compile this to obtain tulip.o (that will be your driver). you can find the compile command if you 'view tulip.c' and page down to the bottom.

After you get your tulip.o you need to put it in you /lib/modules/linux-2.2.16-22mdk/net folder (the dist numbers around linux might be differnent for you)

Now, run Drakconfig (should be an icon on your desktop) and select Linuxconfig. Click on Network then the top choice there (forget the exact name since I'm on windows right now; hehe) There should be a tab for 'Adapter1' there, go there. Select the DHCP button then go down to Netdevice I think and select eth0. Right under that should be a box for Kernel something or other. Don't pull down the arrow; rather type in 'tulip'

That should at least get you hooked up @home after you reboot. If I made sense that is :)

I'm new to linux myself, but I have Mandrake also and had to do the same thing to get my card going.

Hope that helped :cool:

[TheMightyNewbie]

if you can't get your driver compiled for whatever reason, I'll be putting a fresh install of Mandrake 7.2 on my computer again (don't ask why; LOL) so I should be able to do it for you if needed.

if the 'gcc' command isn't found when you try and compile then you probably didn't install the development kits for c++ and such