I'm trying to get a Linksys LNE 100TX PCI NIC recognized on Debian 2.2.17
on a 120 mhz Triton motherboard. I see that there were a number of recent
posts on debian-users about this card, but none quite address my specific
problem.
insmod tulip
comes back with 'Device or resource busy' and a suggestion that an
incorrect param such as the interrupt might be the problem. The docs that
came with the card indicate that it uses the tulip driver - but docs from
different sources are in conflict as to whether or not this driver actually
takes any parameters. Empirically, if I give it any it complains.
A note on the drivers (on the scyld site?) suggested that sometimes PnP OS
needed to be turned off in the bios set up - my bios does not have that
option (unless it's under some other name), but indicated that IRQ's 10,
11, 9, and 12 would be available in that order. I booted with a dos floppy
and ran the diag.exe that came with the card and it checked out fine, using
IRQ 10. I had no reason to imagine that the particular slot the card was in
would make a difference, but I tried all 3 anyway and got the same results.
There are no other cards in the machine except an isa vga card.
modconf gives the same results as insmod. The docs for linux that came with
the card (also a doc on the linksys site) gave steps for downloading the
source for the driver and compiling. Again, the docs on the linksys site,
those of the linksys floppy, and those on the scyld site are not in sync
with each other - the linksys site indicates that tulip.c is on the floppy,
the floppy indicates that it's at the old nasa site, which of course
redirects you to scyld.
This system is only partially set up (as far as the boot disks would take
me, no network connectivity yet and I can't get the floppy to work either)
so I've just tried to use the tulip.o that was already there. If I do need
to compile a new driver then I'd appreciate someone walking me through
connecting to the floppy - 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy' (linksys
knowledgebase) did not work.
I'm new enough at this that I'm not sure what to try next. Any help would
be appreciated.
I confess also that I'm feeling a bit frustrated - I'd like to educate
myself but 98% the linux documentation I find either assumes you already
know the inner workings of linux, or else that your redhat/corel/whatever
supergui install worked flawlessly and you don't want to and will never
need to know any more than the typical windows user does. The only thing
I've found so far at close to the right level is the appendix on 'Principal
Linux files' in 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'.
A book that gave an overview of the structure of Linux, how the difference
parts interact with each other, what processes happen, in what order,
relationship and with what dependencies when the system boots - that would
be at the about right - not 'now select your network card from the list and
press the enter key' or 'download the source, edit and recompile the kernel'.
Any suggestions on reading material also much appreciated.
TIA
