[tulip] question and thanks

[Gregory S Schmidt]

Hey all, I put a message in about connecting my LinkSYS etherfast 10/100
network card and getting it working under red hat 7.0 linux.  I want
to thank those who gave me help in compiling the tulip.c code, etc..
I successfully got the tulip.c code to compile in 2 of the 3 ways suggested.
I switched the paths /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux
and the asm path also to take into consideration that the header files
were of a more recent kernel release, I guess.  That seemed to make things
work better as it compiled alright.  I also tried the netdriver2.0-3src,rpm
method and that workedfine also.  

New problem:

I moved the compiled tulip.o and pci-scan.o files to the a
ppropriate place, did a depmod -a, modprobe tulip, etc...

I tried linuxconf or netconfig and also rebooted in there, 
and I still can't get the network card to work.

I d/l'ed the tulip-diag.c code and will try that tomorrow and
see if I get anywhere with that.  But in the meantime I thought
I would run this message by and see if anyone has gotten this
close to making it work, and it failed still, and perhaps found
something else wrong.

Once again, the specs on my machine are:

Gateway Select 800 Mhz Athlon, 200 mhz bus
I believe the card is in the pci-slot 1, when I 
did a "lspci" from linux, it recognized an
ethernet card in one of the slots and spit
back something like:

00:12.0 Ethernet Controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev 11)
(not sure what Bridgecom is, but perhaps that is an equivalent card)

I am connecting using DHCP and also tried static assignment, through
a DSL modem (i don't think that matters).

I dug up the static ip, gateway, dns and mask under windows and made
sure I did not break the dsl connection since it is a dynamic
address, I guess.

I also read on the scyld web-site about something about reverse
order searching for the cards, and am curious if that is applicable
or not.  The reason I mention it is, when I did the "lspci" command
it seemingly listed cards in order, but the bottom 4 cards were
switched around?  

i.e. after 00:12.0, there was something 00:13.0, 00:13.1, etc... 
When I boot the machine, the bios page says my card is in the 1st
master pci slot.  Maybe 00:12.0 is the first, I dunno...I am clueless.

Anyways, sorry i don't know much, but am puzzled here.  Any more
help would be great.

thanks
Greg

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