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I have a Linksys NIC and I am told that the DecChip Tulip driver will work. However, I don't know how to load the driver. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
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please excuse my ignorance on this one. but what kind of dos configuration tool?
Most Ethernet cards include a floppy that has drivers for Windows NT, 95, 98, Novell, etc. and also a utility that lets you view or set the card characteristics. This includes things like forcing the media type, disabling PNP, choosing an IO and IRQ address. If you do not have such a floppy, visit the manufacturer's web site and see if they have one for you to download.
Long shot. Your NIC may be using a Tulip clone. Some of the late model FA310TX Netgear NICs use a clone. Don't know if it is a generic clone or if it is specific to Bay Networks. As a last resort, you may try using the updated driver that Netgear supplies for linux. Sorry, but I don't have the web address handy.
N.B.: the updated driver source file from Netgear uses a different name than the kernel driver, so be careful.
N.B.: the updated driver source file from Netgear uses a different name than the kernel driver, so be careful.
Is this a PCI card or a pcmcia card? It makes a difference.
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pci.
If you leave off the irq section, It will autosence this. In know that "ne" mod works with LinkSys cards (I have one.)
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when i look at the PCI info in KDE it shows my ethernet card with an io=0xfc00 and an IRQ=10.
when i try lspci -v it shows the NIC and reads sumbsytem: Unknown device 11ad:f003
i guess i have to boot from a floppy and try a dos config tool.
i tried adding the 'options...' without going into a dos config tool. that didnt work. Thanks for the tips.