I just installed RedHat 8.0 on a Compaq Presario 2266 which is equiped with a Cyrix MII 225MHz CPU, 4.2 GB HD, 256MB SDRAM, and 2 Netgear FA310TX Fast Ethernet PCI Cards.

I have added "apm=off" to the kernel boot parameters because the system hung during bootstrap.

The current problem is that I cannot get the system to recognize my NICs. I have tried installing the TULIP driver but to no avail. I have copied tulip.c into /home/root and tried to compile it and get only about 2000 errors. C and C program development is not my forte, nor is any of the X flavors.

My goal is to incorporate this box into my LAN which is comprised of several W2K boxes, a W95 laptop, and an old WFW311 386 box. TCP/IP networking and Windows, I know, but Linux is at this point, a mystery to me.

Thanks in advance.

According to :

"http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6125/linux/fa31x.html"
"https://listman.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/1999-April/msg00410.html"

this card uses the tulip driver.

What does "modprobe tulip" do?
What does "lsmod" give?
What does "dmesg |grep 310" give?

>What does "modprobe tulip" do?

Returns nothing

>What does "lsmod" give?

Returns "tulip 43552 0 (unused)

>What does "dmesg |grep 310" give?

Returns "Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 5,131072 butes)

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I'm afraid I'm probably going to just buy a 3com nic. I haven't got a book on linux yet & am even having trouble mounting an MSDOS formatted FAT12 diskette.

Thanks to Bill Gates, I never learned a real OS.

Oh, well.

I have had problems in the past with many TX-based NIC's. Many of them use additional drivers(besides the main driver itself) for initialization that not even windows gets right at times. You might want to check into this.

Cougar : Don't rush to the store yet. :-)

What does the command: "lspci -v |grep -i ether" say?

Oh, and also please post the output of the command : "/sbin/ifconfig -a"

lspci -v | grep -i ether

00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)

/sbin/ifconfig -a

lo link encap:local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5218 (5.0 Kb) TX bytes:5218 (5.0 Kb)

deanrantala - I meant to note to you that the NICs did not require any additional drivers when W2K was loaded on that box. I initially was going to use it for a firewall, thus the two NICs, but I wound up using it as a security sandbox on my LAN.

Cougar : I found the following instructions at the Linksys Knowledge Base, I've modified them for Red Hat Linux 8.0. Because I cannot test this, I can't guarantee if it's going to work :

1. Log in as root (with the command "su -")
2. From the console, type in: ifup eth0
3. From the console, type in: ifup eth1
4. After running the command in step 2 and 3 the cards should be
initialized, then input : redhat-config-network
5. After the configuring the card with step 2 and 3, input : ifconfig
6. After running "ifconfig" you should have seen two devices, eth0 and lo.
7. From the console Input : vi /etc/modules.conf
8. Input the following at the beginning of the file : alias eth0 tulip
9. Save changes.
10. You would be back at the console, type in init 6 to restart the system.
After you do that - and with a little bit of luck - your LNE100 will be setup.

Okay, here are the results of the ifup command:

ifup eth0

/sbin/ifup: configuration for eth0 not found
Usage: ifup <device name>

ifup eth1

/sbin/ifup: configuration for eth1 not found
Usage: ifup <device name>

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btw: I had not mentioned this yet, but I appreciate your and deanrantala's assistance.

WIn 2k and XP are usually pretty good with these cards - a big improvement over 95,98,ME. Anyway, it's just that I *always* have lost of issues when trying to get these cards running under linux.

Tell you what, find your inet1 (or rc.inet1) file. It is usually somewhere under /etc/ . This is the main file responsible for your network cards configuration. If you can't find it, do a

whereis inet1

or

whereis rc.inet1

this will help you locate the script. Once you find that, copy the first half of so, post it back here and I will take a look at it.

There is no rc.inet1 file. There is an rc.local & an rc.sysinit, but I don't know of those are related.

Cougar, try the following commands :

"su -"
<root password>

"modprobe tulip"

"lsmod |grep tulip" <-----(do you see that it has been loaded?)

"dmesg |tail -n 5" <-----(what does this report?)

"ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1"

"ifconfig" <-----(what does this report?)

Do you see, besides a device called 'lo', the 'eth0' device?

Thanx for all your help guys, but I just threw in a couple 3COM NICs and saved myself and you all a whole lot of time. The NICs were free & it took all of 10 minutes to swap them.

Anyhoo, thanx to those that offered your assistance!