Hi all, In case anyone else has the same problem I was having, I wanted to post how I got it to work. My problem: After installing this NIC, mandrake 6.1 didn't recognize it - during linux install, the tulip driver and other suggested drivers would not initialize the card. I tried several suggestions I found in the mail archives and from other lists but nothing worked. Even tried another distribution - same problem. I read books, man pages, how-tos, you name it. Solution: I finally went back to the obvious - the driver diskette that came with the card. Lo and behold it had a linux subdir with a readme. Readme said to download latest tulip.c and a supporting header file from: FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/tulip.c and FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/kern_compat.h The readme's compile instruction didn't work, but the tulip file had a compile instruction commented in the bottom of the file. That compile command was successful. Next step was a "depmod -a" . Then check options in conf.modules and set accordingly. I tried a "modprobe tulip" (after copying new tulip.o file to proper directory - also spelled out in readme) and it worked !! I had to tweak one or 2 things in the network setup from what I originally had and then all was fine. Also, I did make sure from first Mandrake install that PnP was turned off in the BIOS. I noticed also that in the Mandrake update section of their webpage there is some type of update for the tulip driver, so possibly that will take care of this as well. This is a very inexpensive card ($15 !) and now works like a charm - fine for simple home networking. So there you have it.. Cheers, philomena
