Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> 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)). -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:52:29PM -0400, Mark Gray wrote:
Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> 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.
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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'll second that! and even smaller amongst us hacker types :)
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)).
I've downloaded the netdriver-2.0.src and run rpm -i on the file. Becker's site says that I have to rebuild the kernel now. Is there some cheatsheet instruction on howto rebuild and install the SuSE kernel anywhere? Or can you give me the cookbook instructions? (eg) % cd /usr/src/linux % make kernel; install kernel; % reboot... ...Can't be that simple, but whatever. thanks for the driver info!! gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hi Gary, Hold on a moment. Didn't you say before that "I gave away my 6.4 distro"?? Have you got installed the "lx_suse" (The sources of the SuSE kernel) packet from your distro CD's, if not then you can't "rebuild the kernel" because you have not got the sources. Better ask your friend to share it shortly. BUT first also read Jack Malone's post, he states something very helpful and related. ---- Gary Kline wrote:
[snip...]
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'll second that! and even smaller amongst us hacker types :)
[snip...]
I've downloaded the netdriver-2.0.src and run rpm -i on the file. Becker's site says that I have to rebuild the kernel now. Is there some cheatsheet instruction on howto rebuild and install the SuSE kernel anywhere? Or can you give me the cookbook instructions? (eg)
% cd /usr/src/linux % make kernel; install kernel; % reboot...
...Can't be that simple, but whatever.
thanks for the driver info!!
gary
-- HTH Best regards, Eduardo Carriles [-- Better a smile than a flame --] (Long time SuSE-Linux [preferred distro] user). [-- Se me nota mucho? -- Notices me much?] [-- Have a lot of fun...] -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 05:47:23AM +0200, Eduardo Carriles wrote:
Hi Gary,
Hold on a moment.
Didn't you say before that "I gave away my 6.4 distro"??
Have you got installed the "lx_suse" (The sources of the SuSE kernel) packet from your distro CD's, if not then you can't "rebuild the kernel" because you have not got the sources.
Better ask your friend to share it shortly.
The friends I gave 6.4 are far, far from where I am, and I believe I do have everything since I virtually emptied all the CD's onto my 10GB drive. /usr/src/linux has 88012 blocks of files... so hopefully.... Worst case, I'll wait until 7.0 is out next month. The project I've been hacking at for 4 years and want to port to Linux [ http://muuz.deadbbs.com ]] can wait. In fact, it can wait several months. gary
-- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hi Gary, ---- Gary Kline wrote:
[snip...]
The friends I gave 6.4 are far, far from where I am, and I believe I do have everything since I virtually emptied all the CD's onto my 10GB drive.
/usr/src/linux has 88012 blocks of files... so hopefully....
Better first read related info first in "SDB (English): Welcome to the SuSE Support knowledgebase" at: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/index.html searching for "kernel". And important, do backup your currently installed Kernel with the related files, before: "make kernel; install kernel;" and "reboot..." Just in case. And configure a new Lilo entry for the current (as backed up).
Worst case, I'll wait until 7.0 is out next month. The project I've been hacking at for 4 years and want to port to Linux [ http://muuz.deadbbs.com ]] can wait. In fact, it can wait several months.
gary
-- HTH Best regards, Eduardo Carriles [-- Better a smile than a flame --] (Long time SuSE-Linux [preferred distro] user). [-- Se me nota mucho? -- Notices me much?] [-- Have a lot of fun...] -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, Mark Gray wrote:
Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> writes:
A few days ago I bought a 10/100Mb LinkSys ethernet card at CompUSA [...]
I put one of these cards in my Linux box and followed your lead:
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 appears that this doesn't work with SuSE 6.2. The build went without a hitch, but when I installed the binary package, depmod complained of unresolved symbols in tulip.o and the other modules. Did I miss something? -- Neal Eldred <neldred@juno.com> <neldred@uswest.net> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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