Linux Driver for DEC 21040-family ethernet cards

red118a · 02-06-2004, 12:13 PM

Does anyone know where I can Find a driver for these cards?

DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3]

thanks

TBC Cosmo · 02-06-2004, 02:14 PM

My first guess is that it's the tulip driver, and it should already be available to choose. Try modprobe tulip.

red118a · 02-06-2004, 02:32 PM

How do I do that, excuse me I am a novice.

TBC Cosmo · 02-06-2004, 05:34 PM

As root type modprobe tulip

red118a · 02-07-2004, 01:27 AM

wow! you guys are great! I look forward to when I am answering questions.
Thanks so much for helping me get on my feet.

Ok here is where I am now...Driver installation and network card configuration. The lights on my switch are orange instead of green. How do I

1,. Test to see if my network card is installed
2. Configure my network settings(subnet,ip,gateway,etc,etc)
3. Install the Tulip Driver for my card if it is not already installed??

Thanks!!!
Confused

TBC Cosmo · 02-07-2004, 09:14 AM

In the case of a 3Com 905c

as root:

less /proc/pci

Code:

Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 120).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
      I/O at 0xdc80 [0xdcff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff6ffc00 [0xff6ffc7f]

lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ide-cd                 35200   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  35168   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
i810_audio             26752   0  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             14816   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore               7364   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
r128                  100472   1
agpgart                35584   3
autofs                 13220   0  (autoclean) (unused)
3c59x                  31784   1
appletalk              24972   0  (autoclean)
ipx                    21140   0  (autoclean)
usb-uhci               25540   0  (unused)
usbcore                65440   1  [usb-uhci]
ext3                   67520   5
jbd                    51368   5  [ext3]

In /etc/modules.conf

this line needs to appear:

alias eth0 3c59x <--- that is the module seen in lsmod

More to come...

TBC Cosmo · 02-07-2004, 09:50 AM

In redhat to configure the network:

cd /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices

Code:

[root@cfms7 devices]# less ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
IPADDR=192.168.0.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no

This is the file that the redhat gui network config tool edits.

In Debian, it should be similar. My Deb box is b0rked, so...

red118a · 03-13-2004, 11:58 PM

I am such a newb, the card was installed already and it worked i went into the GUI network card config in Deb and was able to configure it

Thanks again!