I believe it's the following steps. Try it first without the insmod
command, that may be done for you by the ifconfig step.
insmod net/tulip
In /etc/conf.modules...
alias eth0 tulip
ifconfig eth0 up {ip address}
DougC wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I installed 7.1 yesterday but during configuration, it
> did not list my 10/100 Linksys Ethernet card for my
> cable modem ( not a PMCIA card - just a regular card).
> Overall though,the install went generally well.
>
> Linux seems to know it's a PCI ethernet card, just not
> what kind. I skipped this portion and now I have no
> internet connection.
> I went to the linksys website and they explained that
> the on-board (already in linux) 'tulip.o' driver is
> compatible and should work.
>
> How does one exactly 'load' this tulip.o driver?
> I found this file buried under a bunch of subdirs.
>
> Some YES/No Questions:
> 1- Must I be at Admin level to do this step?
> 2- Will any command line 'screen' allow me to do this
> ?
> 3- Must I be in the subdir where the tulip.o
> file/driver is located.
> 4- Are there straight forward command to load it?
>
> If anyone can detail what I need to do I would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> FYI-I have been using the KDE interface.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Doug Conrad
>
> PII-350 96 megs ram
> ATI 8 meg video card
> Lynksys 10/100 PCI ethernet card (cable modem) IRQ9
> Has Dual Boot with boot magic/master? I forget name
> On board Crystal sound (doesn't work yet on linux)
>
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