Once upon a time I built a nice box and put a LinkSys 100/10 Mbit/sec
ethernet card in it. However, since there was no network to connect it to
at the time, I never configured the box for networking.
Attempts to use linuxconf to edit Lilo to dynamically load a tulip driver
fails.
(The guy working on it says it has a Tulip chip, so logically it should use
a Tulip driver. Evidently this is not the case. [My home networking
project has become a training seminar for the staff here at the office. We
are all Microsoft all the time. Right now everybody is pretty convinced
that Microsoft NT-5 is a Very Good Operating System . . . and all freeware
is worth what you pay for it.])
Through Friday we will keep working on trying to load the proper driver into
the kernel.
Any suggestions?
On Saturday, if I have not made progress I plan to just upgrade the @#$%
thing in the hope that the upgrade will not only fix the NIC problem but
also magically discover the HP IDE CD writer that I could never quite get to
work under Linux. (It is on the supported hardware list, but I never could
get the "pretend its SCSI" thing to work.)
-- Item: Can SUSE be used to upgrade a Red Hat installed system? (Never
liked Red Hat anyway.)
---- Now if it can't, I don't have connectivity nor do I have a CD writer.
---- Any backup scheme would be so involved that it would probably make
sense just to burn a post-6.2 Red Hat CD.
----However, the ~/home directory is not only on its own partition, its on a
separate disk. If it comes to it, can I pull the data hard drive, install
SUSE, then somehow merge the two home directories??
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Trent Shipley
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