network cards

[Art Wagner]

Joel;
Are you sure your NIC's are tulip compatible ? I
bought two Linksys cards
at Fry's a few weeks ago, and they use the rtl8139
driver (Realtek 8139).
I believe they are LinkSys 530TX's. Can't find the
boxes just now.
Art Wagner 

Joel Dudley wrote:
> 
> Well, another newbie plight for me.  I am setting up a linux firewall that
> has two Linksys Etherfast 10/100 NIC's in it.  I was not asked to set them
> up during the install however.  If I do cat /proc/pci    I see them just
> fine.  I tried to create my own /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
> file but to no avail.  I then appended lilo.conf with the IRQ's and IO for
> my cards but still no good.  Every time it tries to bring up the interfaces
> it says "No such device.  Error fetching interface:Device not found"  I even
> went into linuxconfig and added the IRQ's and IO's for the cards.  I am
> using the tulip.o module.  Do I need to recompile my kernel before I use the
> module?  tulip.o  is listed in my /lib/modules/curentkernelversion/net dir.
> Is there a better way to set up new network cards under linux??  Thanks for
> the newbie help in advance.
> 
> - Joel
> 
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