where is tulip driver?
RE:http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/ashley_linksys-tulip.html anyone know where the file referred to went? i downloaded it a while back and need it again to compile for new kernel. -- Donald G. Knecht Service Manager - Palatka office Hasty's Communications of FL, Inc. email:donk@hastys.net webmaster@hastys.net manager@hastys.net msspal@gbso.net
On Monday 30 April 2001 3:47 pm, Donald G. Knecht wrote:
RE:http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/ashley_linksys-tulip.html anyone know where the file referred to went? i downloaded it a while back and need it again to compile for new kernel.
Hi Don I have 2 Linksys cards in my box, and I just shove the driver into the kernel rather than have it as a module. Works great !!! When I just installed SuSE, it put the module into /lib/modules/<version>/net is I remember correctly. HTH Jon
Jon Dixon wrote:
On Monday 30 April 2001 3:47 pm, Donald G. Knecht wrote:
RE:http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/ashley_linksys-tulip.html anyone know where the file referred to went? i downloaded it a while back and need it again to compile for new kernel.
Hi Don
I have 2 Linksys cards in my box, and I just shove the driver into the kernel rather than have it as a module. Works great !!!
When I just installed SuSE, it put the module into /lib/modules/<version>/net is I remember correctly.
HTH
Jon
hey, the stock module with 7.0 (2.2.16 kernel) wouldn't work, the driver that was at this link ( see my original post), did work, however, after i compiled it for 2.2.16 i deleted the source.......now i've upgraded the kernel to 2.4.3 and need the source again. i did try compiling the driver into the kernel but it didn't work. -don -- proud Linux user since kernel 1.1.54 icq#42235604
Jon Dixon wrote:
Jon hey, the stock module with 7.0 (2.2.16 kernel) wouldn't work, the driver that was at this link ( see my original post), did work, however, after i compiled it for 2.2.16 i deleted the source.......now i've upgraded the kernel to 2.4.3 and need the source again. i did try compiling the driver into the kernel but it didn't work. -don
At 10:09 PM 4/30/2001 -0400, Donald G. Knecht wrote: the stock module with 7.0 2.2.16 worked just fine for me with my linksys card. jack Jack Malone jack@malone.tyler.com http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (NIV)
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
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
}=}> }=}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..... }=} Yes, SuSE should change this since Ashley was in iSupport in Oakland and that doesn't exist anymore... Mads: You should check into this. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
}=}> }=}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..... }=}
Yes, SuSE should change this since Ashley was in iSupport in Oakland and that doesn't exist anymore...
Mads: You should check into this.
thanks ben, for anyone else who has a non working Linksys card, from skimming the mail at the tulip mailing list, it doesn't look good for any drivers to be coming out for 2.4.3 in the near future :( -- proud Linux user since kernel 1.1.54 icq#42235604
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