| Stephen Gran on 30 Oct 2003 08:22:02 -0500 |
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:47:40AM -0500, kaze said: > In building Red Hat 9.x GNU/Linux boxes I ran out of NIC cards that are > supported 'out of the box.' > > Using static IPs (server boxes) and when I do an ifconfig eth0 everything > looks right, and I can ping myself (I guess the loopback interface works > fine, right?) but can't be pinged or ping the router or other boxes on the > subnet. The lights on the NIC all blink on and off together slowly. > > The first NIC was a LNE-100TX (I have two of these.) On > http://www.linksys.com/download/driver.asp?dlid=2&osid=7 I matched my card > to the one labeled "LINKSYS is printed on card's CPU chip" and updated > "10/98" and downloaded the two floppies. Google lead me to some pages saying > to use the drivers off disk two, but the closest thing I see is SCOUNIX... I don' tknow what driver this one uses off the top of my head, but let's see . . . google says to use the stock tulip module from the kernel, although there are many reports of problems (but all with the 2.2 series kernel - don't know if that means it got better in 2.4, or if it stopped suporting it) > Instead of wasting more time on that I tried a 3c905B card. > http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownload.htm has the file > 3c90x-1.0.0i.tar.gz for download and a nice readme.txt and install.txt, all > labeled as good for Red Hat 6.1 and Kernel Version 2.2.12-20. The installer > ./install3c90x didn't work, so I tried Building a loadable module Driver by > using the batch 3COM provided, compile_UP. This kicked back too many errors. Use the 3c509 kernel module for this card - i tdoes just fine. When it comes to drivers, I haven't needed to use vendor supplied kernel modules for anything but the newest hardware in a long time. If you have the kernel source, a quick grep around in /usr/src/linux/Documentation usually gives you at least a starting point, and then google can finish from there. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | AUTHOR FvwmAuto just appeared one day, | | steve@lobefin.net | nobody knows how. -- FvwmAuto(1x) | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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