[gentoo-user] network driver

[gentoo-user] network driver

[John Dangler]

With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running
old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just
went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics
went fine.  I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure
that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100
(NetworkEverywhere) card.  From what I've read googling and such -
a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com)
b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure

One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and
another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers.

I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling would
just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before about that.
Any input is appreciated.

(I also have an ATI video card in here [Radeon RT100 QY (Radeon 7000 VE), so
if there's some similar homework I need to do on this one, please share)

John D





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Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

[A. Khattri]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:

> With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running
> old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just
> went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics
> went fine.  I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure
> that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100
> (NetworkEverywhere) card.  From what I've read googling and such -
> a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com)
> b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure
>
> One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and
> another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers.
>
> I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling
> would just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before
> about that. Any input is appreciated.

What happens if you do


modprobe tulip


???


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RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

[John Dangler]

I didn't want to just 'try it', since, as I said, I've been wrong before.
I'm not really sure how to install this setup, since my laptop has all new
hardware in it, and the kernel has modules for the laptop.  All of the
information I find in googling is about Linksys wireless cards.  This box is
older (P3 Desktop).  is tulip what I want? or is ndiswrapper?  are they the
same? This is the spot where I'm hung up...

btw - 
lsmod currently shows -
Module	Size	Used By
tulip		42336		0

thanks for the reply. I appreciate it!

John D


-----Original Message-----
From: A. Khattri [mailto:ajai@bway.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:26 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:

> With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running
> old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just
> went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the
basics
> went fine.  I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure
> that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100
> (NetworkEverywhere) card.  From what I've read googling and such -
> a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com)
> b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure
>
> One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and
> another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers.
>
> I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling
> would just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before
> about that. Any input is appreciated.

What happens if you do


modprobe tulip


???


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RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

[A. Khattri]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:

> btw -
> lsmod currently shows -
> Module	Size	Used By
> tulip		42336		0

OK, so what does "ifconfig -a" show?

Also, the output of "lspci" would be useful (I think someone asked
earlier).


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[gentoo-user] [RESOLVED] network driver

[John Dangler]

Ok.  I found some info about tulip drivers.  I added tulip to
modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and rebooted (while sweating)...
eth0 is up and running fine!

Thanks for all the help. (It's usually a combination of this list, google,
portage, and wiki that solves these problems quick!)

John D

-----Original Message-----
From: John Dangler [mailto:jdangler@atlantic.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:57 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] network driver


I didn't want to just 'try it', since, as I said, I've been wrong before.
I'm not really sure how to install this setup, since my laptop has all new
hardware in it, and the kernel has modules for the laptop.  All of the
information I find in googling is about Linksys wireless cards.  This box is
older (P3 Desktop).  is tulip what I want? or is ndiswrapper?  are they the
same? This is the spot where I'm hung up...

btw - 
lsmod currently shows -
Module	Size	Used By
tulip		42336		0

thanks for the reply. I appreciate it!

John D


-----Original Message-----
From: A. Khattri [mailto:ajai@bway.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:26 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:

> With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running
> old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just
> went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the
basics
> went fine.  I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure
> that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100
> (NetworkEverywhere) card.  From what I've read googling and such -
> a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com)
> b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure
>
> One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and
> another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers.
>
> I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling
> would just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before
> about that. Any input is appreciated.

What happens if you do


modprobe tulip


???


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Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

[Ted Ozolins]

John Dangler wrote:

>With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running
>old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just
>went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics
>went fine.  I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure
>that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100
>(NetworkEverywhere) card.  From what I've read googling and such -
>a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com)
>b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure
>
>One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and
>another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers.
>
>I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling would
>just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before about that.
>Any input is appreciated.
>
>(I also have an ATI video card in here [Radeon RT100 QY (Radeon 7000 VE), so
>if there's some similar homework I need to do on this one, please share)
>
>John D
>
>
>
>
>
>  
>
What is the output of lspci?

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Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

[Ted Ozolins]

John Dangler wrote:

>With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running
>old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just
>went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics
>went fine.  I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure
>that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100
>(NetworkEverywhere) card.  From what I've read googling and such -
>a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com)
>b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure
>
>One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and
>another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers.
>
>I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling would
>just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before about that.
>Any input is appreciated.
>
>(I also have an ATI video card in here [Radeon RT100 QY (Radeon 7000 VE), so
>if there's some similar homework I need to do on this one, please share)
>
>John D
>
>
>
>
>
>  
>
I should have added this to my last post. For your radeon card, use the
radeon driver in xorg.conf

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RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

[John Dangler]

I am currently at Chap 7 from the handbook... nowhere near X yet.  I have
the basic system installed, and am nearing the reboot.  I'm trying to find
out what I need to have in modules.autoload.d ...

John D

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Ozolins [mailto:ted1@telus.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:45 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

John Dangler wrote:

>With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running
>old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just
>went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics
>went fine.  I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure
>that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100
>(NetworkEverywhere) card.  From what I've read googling and such -
>a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com)
>b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure
>
>One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and
>another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers.
>
>I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling
would
>just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before about that.
>Any input is appreciated.
>
>(I also have an ATI video card in here [Radeon RT100 QY (Radeon 7000 VE),
so
>if there's some similar homework I need to do on this one, please share)
>
>John D
>
>
>
>
>
>  
>
I should have added this to my last post. For your radeon card, use the
radeon driver in xorg.conf

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Westbank, B. C

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RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dangler [mailto:jdangler@atlantic.net] 
> Sent: 25 August 2005 16:59
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] network driver
> 
> 
> I am currently at Chap 7 from the handbook... nowhere near X 
> yet.  I have
> the basic system installed, and am nearing the reboot.  I'm 
> trying to find
> out what I need to have in modules.autoload.d ...

Anything compiled as a module <M> when you configured your kernel.  Run
the find command as the handbook suggests to find out what's compiled as
a module.  Only add those modules you want/need into your
module.autoload.d/  You can always adjust the contents according to your
needs and preferences at a later stage.  It is usually better to
manually run modprobe first and keep an eye on dmesg to ensure that each
module loads without problems.  Don't forget to run # modules-update
before you reboot.
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