[tulip] Installation - Linksys Ethercard, round 2

[Matthew O. Persico]

Thanks to Wayne Stout, Terry L. Cary, Todd Flinders, Karl Cunningham, I
have made progress. Here's where I am right now:

DSL Router, also serving as the DHCP server and the firewall (it's a
Zyxel Prestige 641, in case anyone is interested) at address 192.168.1.1

LinkSys PrintServer/4port Hub at 192.168.1.2

Mandrake 7.2 box at 192.168.1.3 using a LinkSys LNE 10/100 ethercard

Win2k box at 192.168.1.33 (via DHCP), same type of ethercard

Now,

The Win2k box can ping everyone and can access the net.

The Mandrake box can ping everyone EXCEPT the DSL Router. Pinging
192.168.1.1 hangs. Which would explain why DCHP doesn't fly. :-(

I think the problem is that the NT connection is 10MB/half duplex
whereas the Mandrake connection lights up the 100MB and full duplex
lights on the Hub.

Seems to me I need to get the card into 10MB, half duplex mode before I
have a prayer of fixing anything else.

First I tried to use the SRPMs at
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html. Finally, I downloaded the
individual files (tulip.c, pci-scan.[ch] and kernel*.h), compiled and
tried to install them. No dice. It seems that these lines in
/etc/modules.conf are not being accepted

alias eth0 tulip
options tulip full_duplex=0 options=1 debug=6

So, how do I troubleshoot this?

Thanks so much for all your consideration.
 
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