Sharing LNE100TX blues...

[Vann H. Walke]

Try Donald Becker's latest net-driver package:

http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html

It should get everything up and working...

Good Luck,
Vann


Brandon Arnold wrote:

> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> 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:
> 
>  
> 
> For tulip.c:
> 
>  
> 
> # gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include -DMODULE -Wall 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c /usr/src/modules/tulip.c
> 
>  
> 
> For pci-scan.c:
> 
>  
> 
> # 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
> 
>  
> 
> 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!
> 
>  
> 
> -Brandon Arnold
>