Please HELP

I have a linksys Nc100 nic and am using various versions of linux, currently Caldera 2.3 kernel 2.2.14. Some distros, including this one, will not detect my network card. (normally uses tulip.o)

I have tried 'modprobe tulip' and 'insmod -f tulip' -- to no avail. I get a message saying 'init_module: Device or resource busy' tulip installed in /lib/modules/net/ipv4 on install

/proc/pci says 'Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device' --and some other stuff.

Someone please tell me - How can I force the OS to detect the nic?

Thanks

See if you have another Tulip driver (I think it's called tulip_old or something like that). Browse through your /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/net directory

Not too sure what you'll find in 2.2.14 kernels...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I there was no tulip_old. There has to be a way to force the kernel to recognize the network card

Anyone else???????

Thanks

try 'find /lib/modules -name tulip*' and see what you get.

Then try 'grep TULIP /usr/src/linux/.config' to see what modules are built, what's compiled into the kernel, and what options are available in the your source.

The first one just gave me tulip.o

There is no .config file in /usr/src/linux -- sometimes when I install the OS the source files don't install even though I choose to -- I'm sure I'm doing somethind wrong. I installed all the linux-source* rpm's from the CD and finally got some source files, but no .config

Is there any other way to see the current kernel configuration??

Thanks

I ran make oldconfig, in /usr/src/linux which I believe should give me a .config file with the current config for the system -- but no tulip. Is there anything else I should look for in .config.

Also, is there a good place to get a cpp rpm - I can't even recompile because there is none with this distro.

are you grep'ing for tulip or TULIP in the .config file? You need uppercase in this situation as the directives in the .config file are uppercase. (and no, I haven't got a clue why that is).

I tried both, and nothing. Maybe this kernel did not have support for linksys, it is a fairly new card. Although linksys is mentioned in the hardware howto

... Is the module already loaded? (lsmod)
... Is tulip built into the kernel?

What happens when you type 'ifconfig eth0'?

No, it is not loaded, and as I said earlier, if I try to, I get
'init_module: Device or resource busy'

If tulip is in '/lib/modules/uname -r/net', does that mean that it is built into the kernel. Because it's in there.