I also have a Linksys LNE100TX ( if it is the one you have )
I also could not get the tulip driver to work with
2.2.16*, 2.2.17* or 2.4.0
But on the floppy which came with the card,
Linksys supplied the driver I needed.
just had to ( see readme.txt )
tar xvfz tuiip.tar.gz
make

to test
insmod pci-scan.o
insmod tulip.o
depmod -a
ifup eth0
ping someone

then I moved the two file to ~/2.2.17-14/net/
edit etc/modules.conf

I will place the tar file at
ftp://dave.pmbc.com/pub/tmp/tulip.tar.gz

hope this helps

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Kevin Buettner wrote:

> On Mar 30, 10:39am, Trent Shipley wrote:
>
> > Per Depak's request:
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > Linux Kernel: 2.2.14-5.0
> > ethernet card: Linksys Network Everywhere NC100 version 2.0
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > PCI devices found:
> ...
> >   Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
> >     Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
> >       Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
> >       Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.
> > Latency=64.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
> >       I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
> >       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffec00 [0xefffec00].
>
> Hey!  I think I have one of these (or at least something pretty
> close)...
>
> [kev@mesquite kev]$ cat /proc/pci
> PCI devices found:
>   ...
>   Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
>     Ethernet controller: PCI device 1317:0985 (Bridgecom, Inc) (rev 17).
>       IRQ 11.
>       Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
>       I/O at 0xb800 [0xb8ff].
>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdffff800 [0xdffffbff].
>
> Note that the vendor and device ids match up between your card and
> mine.
>
> I'm not actually using this card right now - more about that in a moment -
> but to the best of my recollection, it worked fine with FreeBSD 4.2,
> Red Hat 7, and Wolverine (the 2nd beta for the upcoming Red Hat release).
> kudzu even recognizes this card when you boot up and offers to fix up
> your networking for you.  (Convenient, huh?)
>
> Now...  as to why I'm not using this card...  I currently have six
> different OSes (only one of which is Linux and none of which are
> Windows) installed on the machine in question and though Linux and
> FreeBSD had no problem with this card, some of the other OSes didn't
> like it.  (I couldn't get Solaris 8 to recognize it.)  I also know that
> older versions of the Linux kernel don't recognize this card:  I tried
> putting the card in one of my Red Hat 6.2 machines (running
> 2.2.14-5.0), but the kernel didn't recognize it.
>
> Anyway, at the moment, I'm using a 3Com card in my Wolverine+FreeBSD+etc
> box and the realtek card that I was originally using with this box in
> my Red Hat 6.2 box.  (Solaris likes the 3Com card better and Red Hat 6.2
> had no problem with the realtek card.)
>
> My recommendation is to either 1) install a new(er) kernel which
> recognizes the card or 2) install a newer Linux release.  I know for a
> fact that Red Hat 7 works with the card that I have.  I think there's
> a very strong likelyhood that it'd work with your card too.  That
> said, it's also likely that other distributions sporting more recent
> kernels will work too.
>
> Kevin
>
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