how to linksys detect nic card?

idiotprogrammer · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 179 Location: Texas

Hi, I'm having problems setting up the initial net interface for installation.

I've done it before, so I have a little bit of experience

static IP address 192.168.0.5
gateway is 192.168.0.1
dns 207.163.146.252 (or something like that)
broadcast 192.168.1.255
netmask: 255.255.255.0
(running behind a netgear router)

when i run net-setup eth0, I enter that info, but then it says "no such device" error message.

when I cat /proc/pci I see device 13 as linksys network everywhere fast ethernet 10/100 model NC100 rev 17

it's device 13 on irq 9 along with the usb controller.

ifconfig -a doesn't show eth0
under dmesg, I see a lot of pci detect attempts made for many different cards, but nothing positive and nothing resembling my own.

I'm guessing that the driver for this nic card is already built in. When looking at ls /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net/* , I couldn't find anything remotely similar.

What's the next thing to try?

rj
www.idiotprogrammer.com

bcavalieri · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 72 Location: Kansas City

modprobe tulip

will fix you right up.

FtR · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 121

I do have the same problem with a

Realtek RTL-8139

with the live CD of the rc-1 it works out fine, but the little stage 1 one boot CD does not recon the device nor one of the existing modules will help me out.

Any Idea how to get thedevice up and running on a blank box ??

FtR

water · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject:

zenon · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 263

WOOOOHOOOOOOO You guys are genius' I'm installing right now and had that same prob with a Realtek RTL-8139, someone should look into that It was a real head scratcher for me... I know how to do the eth0 stuff but when there's no eth0 I was lost...

THANX.

zenon · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 263

WOOOOHOOOOOOO You guys are genius' I'm installing right now and had that same prob with a Realtek RTL-8139, someone should look into that It was a real head scratcher for me... I know how to do the eth0 stuff but when there's no eth0 I was lost...

THANX.

dmc · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

I'm having the same problem with the linksys v5.1 card under RC 2. Doing a modprobe tulip doesn't do anything. The card was detected fine under RC 1.

bcavalieri · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 72 Location: Kansas City

try doing a lspci or cat /proc/pci

If you see a network adapter being reported as a Winbond Electronics Corp blah blah, then it is a rebranded linksys.

The driver to use then is the ne2k-pci

modprobe ne2k-pci

dmc · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

bcavalieri:
When I get home from work today I will try your suggestion.

Something is broken in this release though because I use the tulip driver under RC 1 and RedHat 8. My card is a Linksys LNE 10/100 v5.1.

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

In that case you should use insmod `find /lib/modules -name 'tulip.o'`