No eth0:

[Craig White]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Trent
> Shipley
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:51 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: No eth0:
>
>
> 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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There have been 4 different known chipsets shipped on the Linksys Ethernet
cards - go to their web site to get help to identify which card you have -
it may or may not use the Tulip set. I seem to recall using the newer DE4X5
driver with the more recent Linksys cards. A new install of any decent
distro should detect the NIC and select the device driver for you. I tend to
stay away from the Linksys NIC's to alleviate this confusion. I like the SMC
cards for cheap and of course, use the 3Com cards because they're easy to
use.

I don't believe there's any logic to upgrading the RedHat install with
SUSE - even if it were possible, it would surely be messy and likely to
leave a lot of old files around. SUSE is behind the times at this point - I
would recommend upgrading to RH7 - it's pretty good despite it moving the
apache & ftp roots to /var (which you can move back to /home).

You can - post new install, delete the /home on the install hard drive link
your data drive back to the /home mount.

Craig