Need Network Driver

opiea · 01-21-2006, 10:44 AM

I have a Uli PCI Fast Ethernet Controller (onboard) and I need drivers for it for Fedora Core 4 x86_64 but I can't find them.

acid_kewpie · 01-21-2006, 10:52 AM

this would *appear* to be a tulip variant, so try that driver.

opiea · 01-21-2006, 12:38 PM

I'll give it a try then post the results

opiea · 01-21-2006, 01:28 PM

When I try to install the tulip drivers with "sudo install -m 644 pci-scan.c tulip.c /lib/modules/(my kernel)/kernel/net/ I get "install too few arguments"

I'm running Ubuntu 5.10

acid_kewpie · 01-21-2006, 01:37 PM

why are you trying to install it? you'll already have it in your kernel.

opiea · 01-21-2006, 01:42 PM

The Tulip driver site says I need to either install it on the kernel or as a module. I don't know if it's in my kernel and if so how do I tell it to use it. Soz i'm sort of a n00b lol

acid_kewpie · 01-21-2006, 01:44 PM

just run "modproe tulip". the tulip driver has been a staple of any default kernel for about 8 years now, you WILL have it...

opiea · 01-21-2006, 01:57 PM

I'll try modpoe tulip but isn't it modprobe tulip lol?

opiea · 01-21-2006, 02:07 PM

I did modprobe tulip and it didn't work, network still doesn't work

acid_kewpie · 01-21-2006, 02:11 PM

that won't magically start your network, it will just load the driver. you'd then use system-config-network on fc4 to sort that out.

MS3FGX · 01-21-2006, 02:12 PM

You would still need to actually setup the network interface, loading the kernel module just adds support for it in the kernel.

Does the NIC show up when you run ifconfig?

opiea · 01-21-2006, 02:44 PM

no and I did try to setup the network interface

acid_kewpie · 01-21-2006, 02:49 PM

if you set it up then it must exist.... run "dmesg" and check at the end for evidence of tulip loading up.

opiea · 01-21-2006, 07:13 PM

My friends told me Xandros was decent so I switched to that. It can find it and configures it to "Eth0 (Ali)" but then can't get DHCP and the network light failes to activate.

opiea · 01-21-2006, 09:02 PM

Yeah Xandros sucks lol... anyway in Ubuntu it finds the device but the kernel doesn't have tulip in it. I can't figure out how to install tulip as a module because once I get that working I can install the Uli driver I got for tulip and it should work... I just can't install tulip lol