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im running Mandrake 7.2 with @Home cable and a LinkSys LNE100TX 10/100 ethernet card, its the second version of the card, one with Wake-On-Lan support, my question is.....how on earth do i get the thing to work? and if you cant tell, yes, im a linux newbie )
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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The tulip driver is the correct one to use with this card. Just a warning - this is often a difficult card to get working properly in Linux. Sometimes it works other times it doesn't.
ok well i said screw it and went out and found a NE2000 ISA clone and mandrake immediately recogonized it and its in drake's hardware profile, but for some reason i cant get on the net, im pretty sure everything is configured properly in linuxconf but it still wont work (
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Just type ifconfig at a prompt and then copy/paste the output from the command into your post. Do the same with route. ifconfig will show us what interfaces are detected and route will show us how linux is trying to route network traffic.
I have installed mandrake 7.1 linux on IBM pentium III but linux could not
detect my network card (Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Desktop adapter). I checked the
adapter card support for linux and it states that the driver only supports
Linux* 2.25 and above. I do not think there is such version of linux or am I
wrong?
What can I do to get Linux detect my NIC
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SnoozeButton,
Your card is not being detected. You would have an eth0 if it were. Did you try loading the tulip driver? If not type "insmod tulip" at a prompt.
When it states that your card is only supported in Linux 2.2.5 or above, that is referring to the Kernel. If your card states it is supported, then check their website for a driver download. Most likely they will have one for your card if they state it is supported.
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