Re: Linksys nic

["J. Scott Thurmond" <kenpoma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the tips...  Several questions though.

I am using Mandrake 7.0.
Fist question.  The box says fully compatible with RedHat but I have yet to
find out which version of RedHat it is compatible.

Second question.  The tulip.c file was not on the disk I got with the card.
It has a reference to an ftp site where I can get the driver.  I got the
file and tried to compile.  The compile came back with two missing files.
1.) kern_compat.h and 2) pci-scan.h.  After searching my drive for the files
and not finding them I found a kern_compat.h file on the net but I didn't
find the pci-scan.h file that I need.

Any ideas?

-Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Linksys nic


> >> 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?
> >       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. I also use these cards for all of my machines
> and
> > they have fixed this glitch with Redhat 6.2.
>
> It's not really a glitch,  there was a major revision of the Tulip
> chip after this card was in production.  The .c file was on the driver
> disk that came with mine.  A one minute compile and a modprobe was all
> it took.
>
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