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

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:33:50PM -0500, kaze said:
> > 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

No gateway listed.  What does route -n tell you?

> [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
> tulip                  43840   1
> [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]#

This might be routing problem.  What does syslog say when the tulip module
is loaded?  It might also be a funky card.

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