natsemi is included in kernel 2.4.x. If you can upgrade to that, that would be best. You can download the driver for kernel 2.2.x from www.scyld.com/network/ethecard.html read www.scyld.com/network/updates.html for compiling/installation instructions. good luck
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:42:19AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > Overall, I love Debian as an OS. I've used it many times in a work > environment, and apt-get simply rules. However, I have yet to > successfully install Debian on one of my home machines. Here is the > situation: > > I have 5 different ethernet cards without a permanent home: 4 different > Tulip variants, and a Netgear FA311. I'm trying to get these to work on > Debian 2.2r2. I am unable to get 2.2r3 because A) my CDRW on my Windoze > box just died, and B) I can't get this machine to work with any ethernet > card I have, so installing over the network is not an option. > > I've tried absolutely everything on the Tulip variants... all versions > of the driver included (ng_tulip, old_tulip, tulip) in various ways. > Most recently, I got one of the variants of the tulip to work by > installing a clean system, and entering the following commands: > > insmod tulip > ifconfig eth0 inet 10.1.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255 > ifconfig eth0 up > ping 10.1.1.1 > > And everything worked fine! It was great! So I decided to re-install the > system, and configure everything I wanted. I selected the tulip driver, > and it loaded. I entered the same information above, along with a > default gateway and DNS server address. The install finished, and I > tried to ping the same address. It timed out. > > I tried various things, including rmmoding the driver, and insmoding it, > and redoing everything with ifconfig, but nothing works. > > I'd like to know what is going on here. I know for the fact the card was > working just a few minutes ago. I also know that all of the cards I have > work well under both Red Hat and Mandrake, which I used prior to Debian > and got sick of. > > Also, what driver am I supposed to use for the Netgear FA311? In other > distros, it uses natsemi.o, which is not present in Debian 2.2r2. > > Can someone tell me what is going on? Debian is an incredibly robust OS, > but if it can't work with the same ethernet cards that other distros use > with ease, I'm going to have to switch back. I have 4 machines I want to > install Debian on, all of which are currently running Mandrake and have > Tulip cards in them (one of them has 4 such cards and is being used as a > router), and I can't afford to just buy 7 new NICs. > > Does anyone have a solution for me? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
