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On Sunday 25 February 2001 20:40, James K. Wiggs wrote: > Peter, > > Thanks for the info. I find it sort of astonishing that there > are problems with the tulip driver. This has to be probably the > most commonly used driver other than the ne2k. I've been using > these NetGear cards in most of my boxes for about three years and > never had *any* problems with any previous kernel. The box I did > this install on was running 2.2.14 previously, and the card never > complained. > > Anyway, I unpacked the kernel source and did a "make xconfig" > and I find that, interestingly, the FA-310TX card has its own > button on the network drivers menu. I decided to compile it > right into the kernel rather than as a module. The only problem > now is that make is complaining that it can't find as86, even > though I selected the development packages when I did the > install. Looking through the stuff on the CD that I downloaded > and burned, I can't figure out which .deb package contains the > assembler. Do you happen to know? Can I just do an "apt-get > install as86" and expect it to work? > > I have to say that, overall, I've been thoroughly unimpressed > by the Debian distro. I was told that the installation would be > tough, but I *never* anticipated the two-day nightmare that this > has become. > > Thanks for your help, regardless. > > best, > Jim Wiggs > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > james, the tulip driver is problematic. > > > > we've had cards at our installfests that required the tulip.c driver from > > the 2.4.* kernels. > > > > can you ping the card's IP? > > what does /var/log/messages say? > > > > why don't you recompile the kernel and turn off Lite-On 82c168 PNIC. > > compile it as a module or something. that will stop the kernel from > > trying to configure the card at boot. > > > > pete > > > > On Sun 25 Feb 01, 2:33 PM, James K. Wiggs said: > > > Folks, > > > > > > I'm finding it impossible to get networking functional on the > > > box I've just installed 2.2r2 on. This is not an exotic setup, and > > > I've successfully installed several other distros on it at one time > > > or another, but the Debian install has been a complete wash. > > > > > > Why does my NetGear FA-310TX refuse to work with this kernel? > > > I searched the archives of the mailing lists exhaustively, and I've > > > found no mention of this problem, but it clearly is not working on > > > my box. > > > > > > I've got an AMD K6-2 350 on an FIC board; the only cards in the > > > machine are a BT-950 SCSI card, the NetGear card, and an older SB > > > AWE32 card. The master disk on the primary controller is an ACER > > > 50X CD, and the master disk on the secondary controller is a CD-RW > > > drive, a Matsushita 8x4x32. The box works perfectly with RedHat > > > 6.0 and 6.2, and with Mandrake 7.0. The hard disk is an IBM 4.3 > > > GB FW-SCSI. > > > > > > The boot logs show that the kernel identifies the card as a > > > "Lite-On 82c168 PNIC" (???), and the interface gets configured > > > with the proper IP, netmask, etc, but any attempts to send any > > > data out over the wire fail. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > best, > > > Jim Wiggs > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > "...and here is fortress ovum being stormed by [EMAIL > > PROTECTED] > > millions of tiny warriors..." > > www.dirac.org/p -- Robert "Schweitzer" Picardo
