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[markgray@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark Gray)]

Gary Kline <kline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>    A few days ago I bought a 10/100Mb LinkSys ethernet card at CompUSA
>    for my 6.4 Linux system.   I have 2 older (10Mb) cards on this home
>    network between my two FreeBSD boxes; they work fine.  The card is
>    lit on the 10Mb LED and it my hub shows the connection too, so at
>    least the hardware connection there seems solid.
> 
>    But I've having trouble trying to get my new box "suzah.thought.org"
>    talking to this box, "tao.thought.org" and wonder if any of you
>    can help me.
> 
>    Last night I used the YAST tool to configure various network things,
>    including the ethernet link.  No joy.  And so far today, likewise,
>    no luck.  I don't see any indication that the Linux system even
>    sees the card--from dmesg.  What should I be looking for?  Also,
>    do I need to install any kernel module?

You need to get the very latest ethernet drivers from Donald Becker's
site at:

 http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
 ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.0.src.rpm

It will not work with the old driver (at all). (I bought three of
these at CompUSA also -- it is a small world.)

> 
>    I have "suzah" designated as 10.0.0.3, but even trying 
> 
>      % telnet 10.3

>    fails with the error that the "Network is unreachable."

You have not got a working card driver loaded yet -- once you have,
you can use yast to configure and it will work (and you might want to
take a look at /etc/rc.config to see if there are any more options you
want to use -- be sure to remember to run SuSEconfig after modifying
/etc/rc.config or configuring with yast (if it forgets to do so for
you, as it sometimes will)).


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