Re: assistance requested

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What kernel version are you using right now?

The latest is 2.2.16, I believe...

The safest way to upgrade the kernel is to do a RedHat upgrade (kind of
like a reinstall).  I tried to upgrade just the kernel RPMs once and
everything broke.  You're probably not up to compiling your own kernel
yet.

good luck

Zachary Florian wrote:
> 
> i do have the BSWare6.1 #13.1 cd which i'd imagine is a newer kernel... do i
> upgrade with that cd then? (btw that computer doesn't yet have access
> online) and i do have the disk with the tulip.c file... and for some reason
> my accounts keep getting dropped from the mailing list for "generating an
> excessive amount of bounced mails" and i'm sure it's something here with my
> computer, but i haven't a clue as to what or how to fix it...
> 
> > > ok lsmod shows me having no modules loaded...
> > > and the last line of demsg says "Unknown Tulip-style PCI ethernet chip
> > type
> > > 11ad c115 detected; not configured. " and so i don't know what to do
> > now...
> > > and the Linksys website isn't horridly helpful... has one
> > "troubleshooting"
> > > aspect to the card working with linux...
> >
> > Aha!  Ready to learn how to upgrade the kernel?  You have a "new"
> > style Tulip chip, so you need a newer driver.  There is a .c you can
> > put in your current kernel source tree and rebuild the modules,  but
> > I'd recommend moving up anyway.  The most recent kernels recognize
> > either new/old tulips without any fuss.
> >
> >
> >
> >

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Wesley Leonard
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