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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been battling with my LNE100TX v4 NIC for the
past 3 days. I see its a common problem with most Linux folks that have
bought it, but since I've read lots of posts claiming success, I have faith that
I'm doing something wrong.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For all obvious reasons, the NIC isn't there.
Be aware, it works fine when I boot into Windows ME, so the card is plugged in
securely. I tried to use the netdrivers.tgz that was included on the
installation disk for Linux users. The files unzipped correctly, but only
a few compiled. I wont go into extensive detail about that, because most
posts suggested compiling the updated tulip.c driver at Becker's site.
Therefore, I downloaded the latest tulip.c, pci-scan.c, pci-scan.h, and
kern_compat.h, ran DOS2UNIX on them and then placed them all in the
/usr/src/modules directory. The compile command gave me fits because it is
different for Mandrake 7.2, but I finally came up with the
following:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For tulip.c:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include -DMODULE
-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c /usr/src/modules/tulip.c</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For pci-scan.c:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include -DMODULE
-D__KERNEL__ -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c
/usr/src/modules/pci-scan.c</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They both returned the compiled tulip.o and
pci-scan.o files, but both times I received an assembling error in
modprob.c. I'm not sure if this matters--it seems like it would. :-)
Anyway I ran insmod on both of the compiled files. pci-scan.o installed
correctly, but when I tried to install tulip.o, it returned 'tulip is busy' or
something to that effect. It seems like I read a few posts where people
fixed this problem by changing the slot that the card was in. Anyway, I
changed the card to the slot directly below it, but still no cigar. Of
course, Windows ME still works. Please forgive me on the
non-descriptiveness of the errors, I had to reboot into Windows ME to type this
message and forgot to record the exact statement. I think I included enough
information for a guru to cite my problem, but if you need the exact statements,
by all means, post and I'll include those as well. I guess what I want is
first hand instructions from someone else who had the same problem in Linux
Mandrake 7.x and got it fixed, but I also welcome help from anyone else who sees
my mistake. Thanks in advance!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Brandon Arnold</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>