[ale] Connecting with SUSE 10.0
Terry Bailey
terry at bitlinx.com
Tue Oct 25 13:53:55 EDT 2005
Addendum: I can ping the new Linksys NIC from other PCs on my network. I
just cannot ping from the new Linksys NIC out to other PCs on the network.
At 01:20 PM 10/25/2005, you wrote:
>The Davicom would not even ping the router, so I replaced it with a Linksys
>Etherfast. I can now ping the IP address of the Linksys WRT54G router
>(192.168.1.1) but I still cannot ping any other PC on my local network much
>less get out to The Internet. I tried shutting off the firewall on the
>router, but that did not help. I am going nuts!
>
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>At 10:41 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:
>
> >I hate to say this, but the fastest route to happy is to simply get a
> >different NIC. With the cost of a really nice 10/100/1000 from Intel
> >under $50 and a dirt cheap, works fine PCI NIC from RealTec running $10
> >(uses the 8139too module) you'll be up and running in no time.
> >
> >Otherwise, I would try re-downloading the kernel sources and recompiling
> >the kernel and the modules. Be sure to verify the md5 sum and GPG
> >signatures before you spend any time on the build. It may be that you
> >simply have a corrupted driver. You could try reloading thedriver from
> >the install CD (can't help on _where_ they are. Most likely inside a
> >kernel package).
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:41 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
> > > I am running a dual boot with XP but I don't see how that would effect
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > Would it help to install another driver? I see, by running the find
> > > command, that tulip is always a directory. If I could find another
> driver,
> > > how would I install it?
> > >
> > > I have a friend who is running SUSE 10.0 on a newer machine and he is
> > > having no problem. I guess that the driver for his chip set is OK.
> > >
> > > I am running a 2.0 gig Dell which is about 3 years old.
> > >
> > > The NIC is :
> > >
> > > Davicom 21x4x DEC-Tulip 10/100 Ethernet
> > >
> > > The Hardware Configuration Name is:
> > >
> > > bus-pci-0000:02:09.0
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At 08:16 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >Pinging the NIC doesn't use the driver. You are touching the software
> > > >layer above the driver.
> > > >
> > > >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 19:36 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
> > > > > I can ping the NIC (e.g., ping 192.168.1.100). Should I be able to
> > ping
> > > > > the NIC if the dirver was not working?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > At 03:23 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:48 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > When I run dmesg, every line is:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > tulip_stop_rxtx( ) failed
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >This line shows that the tulip driver is having some problems. I
> > would:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >a. make sure that is the correct driver
> > > > > >b. see what happens if the driver is unloaded and then reloaded.
> > > > > >c. get a different NIC. The tulip driver is for a really old
> chipset
> > > > > >that was notoriously buggy.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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