NIC can't be found.

[Lane Pierce]

During the boot sequence I am receiving the 
following message;

 eth0:unknown interface: 
Operation not supported by device

I cannot figure out why my NIC is not being 
seen. I have tried several flavors of NICs (even a NE2000) and have been 
through the BIOS with several configurations to make sure PnP is not a 
problem. I have even recompiled the kernel (2.2.12) just for good 
measure. It is not possible to load the driver module since theeth0 
is not being created.

At this point, I am running out of 
ideas. Any pointers would be very much appreciated.

Thank you!

-Lane

Re: Network card driver

[Lane Pierce]

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,

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