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deRusett

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Midland, Ontario
Hello,

I have a Tbread 1700
40GB HDD,
Linksys LNE100TX (version 4.1) NIC
Linksys Wireless -B Router (Model No BEFW11s4)
512 DDR Corsair Ram
ATI graphics card.

anyway I've tried 4 different Distros in the last 2 days

Yoper Stable release not PreRelease // Easy install, Graphics set up nicely could not get to connect to network

Mandrake 10.1 Everything flawless, no problems what so ever

Xandros , Freezes at 8% install every time

Debian Still installing it, But it wont connect to the Network with "configure network"




Network is named Mshome, 2 Windows XP Pro computers are connected, the linux computer in question had XP on it and was connected on the network with out any problems.

Wireless connection is turned off.


anyone have any clue how I can get Yoper or Debian to be online? Preferably Yoper
 
verify the network card driver is loaded-

lsmod

verify its up and running-

ifconfig -a
 
I don't see anythiing that looks like a network card when I do
lsmod

and when I run

ipconfig -a
I get
bash: ipconfig: command not found


Yoper Install
 
In Linux it's called /sbin/ifconfig

No -a

Also never tell us what brand and model of card you have. Under Linux you want to know what chip the peripheral in question, NIC in this case, uses. Run "lspci -v", you should get a nice list of the hardware you have.

Debian, at least the woody installer, doesn't do autodetection, you have to tell it what kind of network card you have manually. You get prompted while installing for selecting kernel modules
 
IIRC LNE100tx uses the tulip driver. So when telling your distro what driver to use select tulip.

And -a is a legit switch. It tell ifconfig to report on all inerfaces in the system. Although I think it may be depreciated
 
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From the man page:
DESCRIPTION
Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces.
It is used at boot time to set up interfaces as necessary. After that,
it is usually only needed when debugging or when system tuning is
needed.

If no arguments are given, ifconfig displays the status of the cur-
rently active interfaces. If a single interface argument is given, it
displays the status of the given interface only; if a single -a argu-
ment is given, it displays the status of all interfaces, even those
that are down. Otherwise, it configures an interface.
 
tulip is the name of that particular driver. Also, as mentioned its ifconfig. The -a simply makes ifconfig display information about ALL available network adapters.

As I recall, I had to add tulip to yoper's kernel.... but I had 2.6.7 kernel back thne. Tulip should be there in the current kernels.
 
So if I update to the lastest Kernal you think tulip will be installed?

if so,
1: any ISO's floating around for the semi lazy with Yoper 2.1 and the lastest Kernal?

2a:Can I (In windows) update the Kernal before buring the CD so it is updated in the install?

2b:IF you are feeling up to explaining how or searching google for a tutorial, thank you, if not a simple "its possible" or "its not possible" will sufice and I'll do the leg work.


thank you very much for the help
 
The tulip drivers are part of the official Linux kernel since 2.0.x or maybe 2.2.x at the latest. So if yoper doesn't compile it om it's a yoper problem, tho it would be surprising since the tulip chipset(s) are so common, with many other fastethernet chipsets deriving from it.

You can do it under Windows I guess with things like ISOBuster or other ISO image editing software. The bootfloppies are usually made with syslinux, which I think runs under DOS or a DOS box (hopefully). I don't know of any tutorials explaing what to do. If I were doing it myself, I'd probably plan for some trial and error.
An easier way might be to get a recent kernel.deb from the yoper website (does yoper use deb or rpm?) and install it right after installing yoper, then setting up the network manually.
 
Do this first:

lsmod
and look for tulip

If its not there try-

modprobe tulip

If you get errors then you'll want to try a more recent version of Yoper like 2.2.0.6 alpha, or circumvent the problem (d/l'ing the kernel source from knoppix or if you're dual-booting windows) and get the kernel source into yoper and recompile the kernel. Actually you could try a newer kernel rpm from yoper's repository, recompiling may not be required.
 
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In fact, now that I think about it... my yoper duallie has a NIC that uses tulip. When i was working out kernel specs for a yoper live CD, I was annoyed that tulip wasn't present. If you go here-

http://yoper.com/download.html#usa

pick a mirror, and go into the yoper directory, version2, rpms... you should find kernel-bootcd 2.6.7-5 and kernel-bootcd 2.6.8.1-3. Both of those already compiled kernels have tulip. Just downlaod from windows (if dual-booted) or from knoppix and save it in your yoper installation. As root cd to where the rpm is and run

rpm -Uvh kernel-bootcd's-filename.rpm
 
Oh am I ever having a good time with this AAAHHH mnt/cdrom does not exist

how did I install Yoper with out having a CDrom or network hmmm.

LG CDRW/DVD combo drive

good thing this is a secondary computer and I'm willing to toy with it, or I'd be giving up on linux again ACK!

EDIT
redownloading 2.2.0-6 kde ISO, going to try that one again
 
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