[tulip] D-Link DFE 570tx install problem

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, peterc wrote:

> 	I hope you will be able to help me with this. I am currently trying to
> install
> mandrake 7.1 onto a machine with 2 DFE570tx (4 port) cards on board. The O/S
> install seems to work fine. I reboot the machine and that goes ok as well
> the system comes back up and binds eth0 ,eth1 ,eth2 ,eth3 to the correct IP
> addresses. However when I look in the /var/log/messages file I get an error
> saying...
> 
>  kernel: eth0: media is unconnected, link down or incompatable connection.
> 
> do I need to build and install a tulip driver or should it already be part
> of my kernel ?
> Or is there something else that I am doing wrong ?

What driver are you using?
What is the detection message?

You should be using the Tulip driver, not the de4x5 driver.

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