RE: [PLUG] NIC driver installation howto? (newbieish level help needed)

["kaze" <kaze@voicenet.com>]

--> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
--> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of kaze
--> --> Uh, this NIC normally runs under the tulip family, if it's
--> not compiled
--> --> into the kernel, it's often supplied as a module (insmod tulip).  Of
--> --> course if your NIC is detected, then you might have to give
--> it a little
--> --> help. For example what information does ifconfig eth0 give?  Unless
-->
--> Will supply this with the next post.
-->
--> --> you're getting your IP address assigned by dhcp, you might have to
--> --> assign an IP address that fits within the range of whatever you're
--> --> trying to reach with the NIC.
-->
--> I'm using a static IP and triple checked that I have it
--> configured right so
--> I'm 95% sure that's not the issue.

I pulled the 3COM NIC and put the LNE-100TX in, RH detected the new hardware
and allowed me to migrate settings.
Here's what I get now, it doesn't work yet...
Of note is that lsmod shows tulip loaded.

[root@sa root]# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:FF:FF:9E:B6
          inet addr:10.10.10.50  Bcast:10.10.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:14 Base address:0xd000

[root@sa root]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
No data available
[root@sa root]# mii-tool
no MII interfaces found
[root@sa root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               5116   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   13004   1  (autoclean)
fat                    38808   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8996   0  (autoclean)
parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13268   0  (autoclean) (unused)
tulip                  43840   1
ipt_REJECT              3928   2  (autoclean)
iptable_filter          2412   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              15096   2  [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sr_mod                 18136   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33728   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod]
keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
mousedev                5492   1
hid                    22148   0  (unused)
input                   5856   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci               26348   0  (unused)
usbcore                78784   1  [hid usb-uhci]
ext3                   70784   4
jbd                    51892   4  [ext3]
aic7xxx               141236   5
sd_mod                 13452  10
scsi_mod              107128   3  [sr_mod aic7xxx sd_mod]
[root@sa root]# ping 10.10.10.50
PING 10.10.10.50 (10.10.10.50) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.10.10.50: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms
64 bytes from 10.10.10.50: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.054 ms
64 bytes from 10.10.10.50: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms

--- 10.10.10.50 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.054/0.061/0.066/0.008 ms
[root@sa root]# ping 10.10.10.211
PING 10.10.10.211 (10.10.10.211) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From 10.10.10.50 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 10.10.10.50 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 10.10.10.50 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 10.10.10.211 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4088ms
, pipe 3
[root@sa root]#

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