Linux - HardwareThis forum is for Hardware issues.
Having trouble installing a piece of hardware? Want to know if that peripheral is compatible with Linux?
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
I have a problem with my network card. I installed Suse 10.0 on my desktop. In the beginning everything worked well except for my Inetrnet connection. But after the first startup, Suse stopped loading and everything stopped. There was even no response on my mouse.
After trying some stuff, I pulled out my network card and Suse had no problem anymore with starting up. I think there is a problem with my driver, but Suse recognizes my network card well. It is the Digital DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3]. Besides the Tulip Pass 3, the information of my network card is correct.
Ifconfig gives:
eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C5:0E:36:6A
inet6 addr: fe00::200:c5ff:fe0e:366a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packet:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packet:0 errors:0 dropped:41 overruns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000
I cannot ping my router. It gives:
connect: Network is unreachable
Could anyone help me? Before I intalled Suse, I had Debian running and Internet worked well with Debian.
It may be related to tulip, actually. I had to use a different Enet card, no matter how hard I tried, the tulip wouldn't cooperate with SuSE 10. It may be a kernel issue, it may be a SuSE issue, I didn't care, I just swapped it for a Realtek 8139too, which works everywhere. If you don't ahve access to another card, maybe someone can help, but I tried awhile ago and tried a dozen things with many ideas from people here, and got nada to work.
Can't you get the source of the deberian driver and compile it on SUSE 10? Maybe if you do, and use that recompiled driver it may help....
I'm just a newbie with Linux (I just started using Linux SUSE 10 a few days a go, before that I used SUSE 9.3), so don't shoot me if my answer isn't one....
I do not have the Debian driver anymore. I am fed up with trying and as I remembered the same situation arose with Win 98 a few years ago. I just decided to buy a new network card, one that has no troubles with Suse 10.
So one important lesson: Do not even try to fix the problem with the Tulip network card, but just buy a new. It saves you a lot of time and frustrations.
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.