Re: Linksys nic

[Jamie McCarthy <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

kenpoma@hotmail.com (J. Scott Thurmond) writes:

> I just purchased a new Linksys fast Ethernet 10/100 card to go in my
> Linux machine.  I was expecting the bootup process to detect the new
> hardware like it did when I changed out my video card and ask me to
> configure it.  It didn't happen and the documentation said if I am
> using RedHat to refer to the RedHat documentation on how to install
> the NIC card and to use the Tulip driver.  Can you help me get this
> card installed and configured?

Is this the LNE100TX?  I have two of them in the box that will firewall
this outgoing mail, and they work fine :-)

Look for your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules file (either will
work, use what's already there or take your pick and create one).
Add this line to it:

alias eth0 tulip

Then reboot.  If you're using Red Hat 6.2 it will detect it on
startup and all should be well.

But as Justin says,

> I am assuming that you are using Redhat 6.1 because I couldn't get
> it to work with the default install either. You can either download
> the latest tulip.c from http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html or
> you can recompile the latest kernel with support for the DEC Tulip
> chip in the 10/100 ethernet section.

This involves a kernel recompile or at least a module recompile and
then insertion (which is scarier to me than rebuilding the whole
kernel :-).  Personally I'd feel better about just upgrading to 6.2
but your mileage may vary...
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