Paul Abrahams wrote:
Re the Tulip drivers (for Linksys networking cards):
There are a couple of versions of them extant. Through some correspondence a couple of months ago I learned that the whole issue of Tulip drivers had gotten caught up in an internal Linux squabble between Don Becker, who wrote the originals, and whoever is currently maintaining that part of the Linux kernel. Don's design relies on a module pci-scan.o, which the current maintainers believe doesn't belong in the kernel (as a module or otherwise). To add to the confusion, the Linksys docs and driver disk has some mutually contradictory and confusingly written instructions for obtaining and installing the drivers.
At the moment I'm running on a machine with a Linksys ethernet card and a stock SuSE 7.1 installation. Whatever's in there seems to work, but I had a lot of trouble on a slightly older installation using a stock kernel from kernel.org. There was no way to include working Tulip sources in a 2.2.x kernel, so I had to compile modules separately and then patch them into the /lib/modules directory, repeating the process each time I recompiled the kernel.
This info won't solve anyone's problem but it's useful background.
Paul Abrahams
thanks for the backgound Paul, i think what i really need to do is let someone at SuSE know that the link on the SDB page is broken...... whoever "ashley" is - isn't at www.suse.com/~ashley nor is there an "ashley" under the /people directory..... -don -- proud Linux user since kernel 1.1.54 icq#42235604