Crazy Crazy NIC

[Max Power]

I just installed Progeny Debian RC2 and I'm having trouble getting my network card to work right. It is a Linksys LNE100TX I'm on a T1 with a permanent internet connection. I configured my network by loading the tulip module and giving it all the necessary network info (ip, gateway, subnet mask, dns, etc). Then I added
alias eth0 tulip

to modules.conf and restarted the network. This loaded tulip and I could see it when I used lsmod. The funny thing is, I can only ping my own ip address. Nowhere else, not even on the local network.

Anybody know what's going on or have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

[aph3x]

please post more info, an ifconfig -a and netstat -rn would be nice :)

[Max Power]

Ironically, after a few weeks of struggle, right after I posted this, I got it to work. Here's what I did. I got the driver disk that came with the card (if you don't have it, you can download it from Linksys' website) and followed the instructions in the readme.txt in the linux directory with a few changes.

1. To compile the stuff, only compile the pci-scan.o and the tulip.o modules using the following command. The make command doesn't work due to folder discrepences. Use this (all one line):

gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -I/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.18/include -c -o tulip.o tulip.c

Note, there are two underscores between D and KERNEL and the -O6 is a dash then the letter o then the number 6. Also, that directory might not be quite right for every debian based distro, so look around for something like that. Then compile pci-scan.c similarly.

2. In steps 8 and 9, don't worry about the ifup and ifconfig too much. Run them to set up the card, but don't really worry about it.

3. In step 10, only add these files to the /etc/modules/2.2.18/net directory. Of course this will be different for different kernels.

4. In step 11, if they aren't already there, add the lines

/lib/modules/2.2.18/net/pci-scan.o
/lib/modules/2.2.18/net/tulip.o

to the file /lib/modules/2.2.18/modules.dep
instead of what they say.

5. Restart the computer and test the network card.

This is what worked for me using Progeny Debian RC2. Hopefully it'll work for you too. Good luck

[bdg1983]

Glad to hear of another success story.

Pays to read the docs included with your hardware.