im running Mandrake 7.2 with @Home cable and a LinkSys LNE100TX 10/100 ethernet card, its the second version of the card, one with Wake-On-Lan support, my question is.....how on earth do i get the thing to work? and if you cant tell, yes, im a linux newbie )

The tulip driver is the correct one to use with this card. Just a warning - this is often a difficult card to get working properly in Linux. Sometimes it works other times it doesn't.

ok well i said screw it and went out and found a NE2000 ISA clone and mandrake immediately recogonized it and its in drake's hardware profile, but for some reason i cant get on the net, im pretty sure everything is configured properly in linuxconf but it still wont work (

I'm sure if you give us a little more info (what configs you have now, how you access the net, etc) we will be able to help you out.

uhm configs? and its AT&T @Home cable, dunno what u mean by configs though cuz i dont know too much bout linux

You said that you think everthing is configured properly. What did you configure?

in linuxconf i did the DNS settings, my hostname, ip, subnet mask and so on

OK. You you give us the output from ifconfig and route? What happens when you try to ping something?

erm output?? and as for ping says its unreachable

Just type ifconfig at a prompt and then copy/paste the output from the command into your post. Do the same with route. ifconfig will show us what interfaces are detected and route will show us how linux is trying to route network traffic.

ok heres ifconfig first then route, windows didnt read the text as nicely as linux did but here it is...

[root@C936172-A /root]# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0


[root@C936172-A /root]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

im noticing that for my net addy it has the loopback addy, and for the subnet mask its supposed to be 255.255.255.0 but i dunno how to fix it...

I have installed mandrake 7.1 linux on IBM pentium III but linux could not
detect my network card (Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Desktop adapter). I checked the
adapter card support for linux and it states that the driver only supports
Linux* 2.25 and above. I do not think there is such version of linux or am I
wrong?
What can I do to get Linux detect my NIC

SnoozeButton,
Your card is not being detected. You would have an eth0 if it were. Did you try loading the tulip driver? If not type "insmod tulip" at a prompt.

Hey sojsam,

When it states that your card is only supported in Linux 2.2.5 or above, that is referring to the Kernel. If your card states it is supported, then check their website for a driver download. Most likely they will have one for your card if they state it is supported.

Good Luck

Drew