Re: [TCLUG:8394] More DSL/NIC help...

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Joe Laha (penguin@acm.cs.umn.edu):
> hello all,
> 
> Recently got my apartment wired for DSL. I'm now trying to get it
> working with Linux but I'm having trouble getting RH6 to recognize
> my NIC (I'm using a Linksys EtherPCI.) According to the documentation
> the module that works with the Linksys is tulip.0. I added tulip to
> the kernel using kernelcfg supplied it with the harware address (found
> using winipcfg under win98) restarted kerneld...and nothing. Usernet 
> hangs up with trying to start the interface and ifconfig dosen't list 
> eth0 as active...is there a step I'm leaving out? The official RH documenttation
> is woefully lacking on this sort of thing (At least the RH5.2 install guide is.)Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 

When you load the module did it register in /var/log/messages? Ie, did the
module even see your NIC card?

Try do a insmod tulip and see what happens.

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