Linksys LNE 100TX support

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ewu : 15/06/02 03:50 AM : Incident created -   Hello, When I installed Mandrake 8.2 a week ago, I did not have the subject NIC. Well, I bought one today. So how do I add drivers to support the Linksys card? Thanks EW
Linegod_7611 : 15/06/02 10:04 AM : Reply received -   Your card should be supported, and detected on boot. If it is not, open up a console, log in as root, and type 'kudzu' ------------- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this incident. The following entries are Mandriva Expert standard texts, added to the expert's comments: [ about ]  Please run the following commands, and include their output in your reply. This will enable us more easily to handle your ethernet card-related problem: lspci lspcidrake cat /etc/conf.modules lsmod cat /etc/resolv.conf cat /etc/sysconfig/network cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 route -n ifconfig -a chkconfig --list network rpm -q dhcpcd  Superuser Terminal Window 1. Opening a terminal. There are a few ways to do this. The easiest is in KDE of GNOME or Xfce, where a terminal icon is displayed on the panel bar at the bottom of the screen. Just click it. Otherwise, open the menu and select "Terminals" and choose one. Eterm, Konsole,and rxvt are all OK as is Xterm. Eterm and Konsole have histories so one can backscroll and also use the up-arrow to call up previous commands. 2. Once the terminal is open, a prompt will show, like this: [tester@v5 tester]$ _ The underscore doesn't show, but I used it to show where the cursor is. 3. Now to make this the superuser, or root user, we employ the su (setuser id) command. [tester@v5 tester]$ su Password: _ 4. The system waits for you to type your root password. After you have completed this and hit , you should see: [tester@v5 tester]$ su Password: [root@v5 tester]# _ In this case, I was logged in as the username 'tester' and now in this window only I am logged in as root, but still in the directory /home/tester. If you see a screen like this, then you have opened a terminal window and logged in as superuser. If you see error messages, then you have proof that you are most likely not an alien to the planet Earth. Just keep trying and you will get there. This procedure works even on systems where the security is set so high that it is impossible to login as root.
ewu : 15/06/02 05:28 PM : More info provided -   Okay, I logged in as root. Then I typed the command kudzu. No output but at least it took the command. Other diagnostic outputs are in the attached file: reply1 Best Regards, EW	Attachment
DaveF : 15/06/02 06:37 PM : Reply received -   Do you have another NIC in that machine or just the one? It's detecting a LinkSys NIC (EtherFast) that normally uses the tulip driver whilst your modules.conf is set up for two NICs, one using the 8139too driver and the other using the ne driver. Did you hack the modules.conf file by hand at all?
ewu : 15/06/02 07:13 PM : More info provided -   Okay, My /etc/modules.conf is original out of the box, as follows: alias usb-interface usb-ohci probeall scsi_hostadapter ppa alias sound-slot-2 ad1848 I replaced the HPNA2 NIC with a real NIC -- Linksys LNE 100TX.Then I rebooted from a completely powered off machine, after the NIC replacement. Best Regards, EW
DaveF : 15/06/02 07:20 PM : Reply received -   Damn, I'm sorry. I was looking at someone else's /etc/modules.conf that I still had open in another window. In any case, that card is seen and it's being detected as having a tulip compatible chip. If you open up the Hardware panel in the Mandrake Control Centre, does it see it there? If it does, try running the configuration tool from there. If this resolves your issue, please close this incident.
ewu : 15/06/02 09:55 PM : More info provided -   DaveF, I opened the hardware panel in Mandrake Control Center. There is the Network Device Card without any mention of Linksys. There is no card shown at all. Best Regards, EW
ewu : 16/06/02 09:13 AM : More info provided -   Hello Dave, Well, that was probably a configuration problem that's quite hard to fix. Anyhow, I decided to reinstall Linux from scratch and I am really glad that I made that decision 'cos my Linux PC is now connected to my home network! Somehow the NIC must be installed before installing Linux. If the NIC is installed later, Linux cannot detect it -- never showed up in the bootup log. Thanks for your time and effort. Enoch
DaveF : 16/06/02 03:22 PM : Reply received -   That depends on the NIC. Many of them can be detected but, as you've seen, not all of them. You could have gotten it going by inserting the correct module, something like putting alias eth0 tulip in /etc/modules.conf and then following that up with a reboot or with insmod tulip ifconfig eth0 up Anyway, the Ethernet HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO would have got it going. If you're just fresh into Linux, though, a reinstallation is sometimes the best choice 'cause it gives you the chance to change a few things you didn't get quite right the first time. In any case, congratulations on getting it going. Please close this incident.
ewu : 16/06/02 11:57 PM : Incident closed -

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