[tulip] Linksys LNE100TX (EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card PCI) with SuSE Linux7.0

[Andreas Meile]

Dear Linux users

Recently I installed Linux (SuSE 7.0, see http://www.suse.de/) on my
existing PC system which is equipped with a Linksys LNE100TX (EtherFast
10/100 LAN Card PCI) Ethernet NIC.

According to the manufacturer's specifications this card should work with
the "tulip.o" module but "modprobe" does not accept this card. :-(

Some details: "Version 4.1" can be read on the PCB (Printed Circuit Board)
and the "Linksys" labeled chip carries the number "0027WDAHAP064841.04".

This card appears in /proc/pci as

PCI devices found:
...
  Bus  0, device  13, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
      Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.
Latency=64.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
      I/O at 0x1000 [0x1001].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4001000 [0xf4001000].

I already tried to build a new kernel with an updated "tulip.c" (SuSE
shipped the 7.0 distribution with a version more than one year old!) but
there are dependencies problems with "pci-scan.c".

SuSE also uses a *modularized* kernel so I appreciate the assistance of
somebody who is using the SuSE Linux distribution too, can give me a small
instruction to successfully compile and include these modules "pci-scan.c"
and "tulip.c". :-)

I ask that because i saw in the other postings that kernel module compiling
seems to be a *distribution specific* task. I only found something about Red
Hat.

      Andreas