network detection problem (Alexander and John)

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 17.09.2004 schrieb Eric Cartman um 19:49:

Eric,

please do not top-post and quote the full previous correspondence on
bottom.

> Thanks for the reply.  I know it is not the right list
> for redhat 9 but since i have spent lot of time
> installing fedora-core which I couldn't. I did not see
> any best option other than this for redhat because i
> had nowhere else to go. I mounted floppy drive and
> windows VFAT drive.  It works. :).  Regarding
> ifconfig, I get follwing output.  

> 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network
> Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)

From what I googled this card has one of those chips

PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter(DEC21140)
PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter(DEC21143)

Unfortunately Linksys has no manual or specs sheet on their site for
that older card.

As the card is not automatically detected and configured by kudzu there
might be a problem. I remember that some years ago we had problems with
a specific kind of SMC cards, which had the DEC21140 chip too and it was
impossible to get the driver running. So try

modprobe -v tulip

Run in a different terminal or console a "tail -f /var/log/messages" so
that you can see the syslog and what the system does when the tulip
module is loaded. Maybe you have to fiddle with parameters for the
module, like i.e.

modprobe -v tulip options debug=1

More through "modinfo tulip" and the www.scyld.com linux driver page.

Alexander


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