Nathan, By this and an earlier message, it seems that you are stating that one must install the potato release before installing the tulip driver?
I am attempting to install my first Debian system and cannot `insmod tulip`. When I do, I get a message stating that the device or resource is busy. `dmesg` has the following info. "Unknown Tulip-style PCI Ethernet chip type 11ad c115 detected: not configured." I have a Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 PCI card. Does this indicate that my slink release cannot handle the card? Thanks, -Lane ----- Original Message ----- From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Timothy C. Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 4:33 PM Subject: Re: Network card driver On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:15:39PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: : Hi Nathan, : : Thank you very much. So, all I need to do after a fresh : potato installation, do a modprobe tulip and that is it? : Would this install the drive? ... or just choose "tulip" during the "Configure Modules" section of the install. The driver is in section net. : How about configure it to a certain IP, submask, gateway, : DNS servers? Reading ahead I guess you're using the Netgear as your second card (are you using two of them?) Simply configure each interface in "/etc/init.d/network". I'll attach mine from my masq box. : I'm plan to do IP MASQ on this potota box. What do I need : to do in term of rebuilding kernel, addition packages to : install, addition configuration to the network drive, etc.? You must include Masq support, and Optimise as router not host ... I'll just attach my config too. My Masq box is a 486 so adjust for your processor as appropriate ... any questions just ask. Please note that the attached config DOESN'T include support for tulip cards; I recommend `make menuconfig' to fix this and other tweaks as needed. : Nathan, you have been quite helpful to this user group and : me. I sincerely thank you.! Oh, I'm just trying to be as helpful as the deranged souls who got me going on this stuff a few years ago :) Thanks for the kind words. : BTW, I tried to mirror of your midco site as suggested by : you last time, I still have the timeout problem which I : could not figure it out. This happened with ftp.debian.org : ftp.us.debian.org and a few other sites. That was why I used : crosslink.net and I think these few days crosslink.net gave me : the same problem as other sites. If you continue to get timeouts try tracerouting to the site you're mirroring from ("/usr/sbin/traceroute") : Best regard! Same to you! Good luck, -- Nathan Norman Network Magician, Eclectic Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7