NIC?!!!(Linux n00b)

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OK, Like WTF?? I go to Linksys's Website to get drivers for my Gateway's NIC,(planning on networkin soon, hopefully) and apparently Mandrake 8.2 can't install it because it isn't a GZ file!?!? here is the site if you're interested: http://www.linksys.com/download/default.asp

Product is LNE100TX ver. 5.1

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First, I suggest the following page.

http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=25

Second, I'd be surprised if that card weren't supported by default. I know it's supported in the default configuration of REdHat8

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How do I recompile the kernel then? I can't find how to anywhere!

 

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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/202/1/

 

XWRed1

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That card is most certainly supported in the Linux kernel. Before you trty recompiling, try doing `modprobe tulip` and see where that gets you.

 

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or you could just run netconfig from a console or that may be a gui utility ne way it can probe for nic cards and load the needed modules etc . . .

 

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XWRed1 said:

That card is most certainly supported in the Linux kernel. Before you trty recompiling, try doing `modprobe tulip` and see where that gets you.

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With the Run command, right?

 

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No. If you are in a windowmanager, open up a terminal window, 'su' to root, and then type 'modprobe tulip'

If you aren't in a window manager do the same at the prompt

 

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Umm, I have KDE GUISo I don't know which it is,

 

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The first one. Just open a terminal/console window. And type the stuff

Gui=windowmanager=KDE, GNOME, Windowmaker, Afterstep, Blackbox, etc.

 

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K I'm back, what is Terminal Window? Is that like the DOS Prompt?

 

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Penguin4x4 said:

K I'm back, what is Terminal Window? Is that like the DOS Prompt?

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Yes, it's just like the DOS prompt. There's usually a button on the toolbar. I think in KDE it's called 'Konsole' but I could be wrong.

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Agh, 'module Tulip not found'.

Guess I'll have to do it the hard way then,

 

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OOOK, ' directory /usr/src/Linux not found' ?!?!?!!!!

 

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Everything is case sensitive. Don't put a capital T in tulip or a capital L in linux.

 

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Well I try 'tulip' but after I press Enter all it does is display another entry line,

 

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Then type 'lsmod' and if you see tulip in there then the module was installed and should be working correctly.

 

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moorcito said:

Then type 'lsmod' and if you see tulip in there then the module was installed and should be working correctly.

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'bash: lsmod: directory not found'

That bad?

 

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Did you do it as root?

If that doesn't work then type 'cat /proc/modules' (That's assuming that you even have a proc directory in the first place)

Or type 'dmesg' at the prompt. That will output to the screen all of the kernel messages, if the tulip module was installed correctly, then you should see somesort of message at the very end.

And, for future reference, if you get a message saying "file not found", or "directory not found" like you did in the first place try running the same command as root. 9 times out of 10 that will work. The other time it means that you're paths are messed up, or you didn't install what you are wanting to run.

 

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If it appears to do nothing, then it probably loaded fine. You should be able to configure you nic using any gui tools, or with ifconfig.