have you tried the drivers from here? http://www.scyld.com/
This site is the home of Donald eEcker. He is the orignal author of
the Tulip driver and is still maintining a copy. The Linksys card has
many different revs and can cause lots of headaches. I also suggest
getting on the mailing list there. Lots of excellent help.
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On 7/17/2000 at 6:49 AM Ralph Day scribbled:
>I have two of these cards in one box both working fine using the tulip
>driver - originally under LM 7.0 and now LM 7.1. This sounds like a
card
>configuration problem. Check your BIOS settings and make sure PNPOS
is set
>to No. This will make the BIOS configure the cards IRQ and I/O
address.
>Many machines running Windows have PNPOS set to Yes which requires the
OS to
>configure the cards I/O and IRQ which Windows happily does and Linux
doesn't
>seem to do. Your lilo change only tells Linux where to look for the
card.
>
>- Ralph
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joe Brault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 5:47 PM
>Subject: [newbie] Linksys Network card help needed...
>
>
>> Thanks everyone who helped with my pcmcia card, but now i'm onto an
even
>> more difficult one for my desktop. I have a Linksys LNE100tx card,
and am
>> unable to get it to work no matter what i do. I tried to downnload
the
>> latest driver and get that compiled,but it wil not compile... I
tried the
>> tulip driver the comes with mandrake 7.0 and that gave me an error
saying
>> delaying eth0 initialization, followed by 'FAILED'. I also tried
manually
>> setting the IO and irq for it taken from my winbloz portion of my
>computer,
>> but that didn't work either, just gives the same message as above.
I even
>> went as far as to add a line to my lilo.conf file to see if I could
assign
>> it an irq and IO that would work on boot, but nothing works... I am
>really
>> lost and would appreciate any help that anyone can give. Thanks in
>advance!
>>
>> - Joe :)
>>
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