Help getting Linux connected to the net!

[Neuro7]

I have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card LNE 100TX version 4.1, and it is using the tulip driver in Linux. I have been to their site and this is the driver that they say to use. It was auto setup during install.

Thanks,
Neuro7

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Neuro7:
I have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card LNE 100TX version 4.1, and it is using the tulip driver in Linux. I have been to their site and this is the driver that they say to use. It was auto setup during install.

Interesting.. Again I don't have much experience with Mandrake and my last experience with 8.1 was not that great.  I tried to install it on my laptop and it didn't like my LinkSys Etherfast PCMCIA card.  I certainly could have worked on the driver and probably make it work but I didn't want to mess with it and put RedHat 7.2 back on as RedHat has never had a problem with that card.  

According to some searching I found others say the card used to work in 8.0 but it doesn't work in 8.1.  It sounds like your card *should* work. I have lots of network cards lying around the house of different make/models and if it were me I would just throw one of the other ones in to see if that were the problem but you may not have that luxory.  Sorry I couldn't help.

[voidmain]

One last gasp... I read a post where a user had a similar problem that you have and when switching his cable from his Win machine to his Linux machine he had to power off his cable modem for at least 30 seconds and then plug it back in.  Don't know if you already tried that....

[Neuro7]

I tried powering down the cable modem for about a minute then powered it back up with it connected to the Linux box. When I try the /sbin/arp -a command I get: ? (24.159.189.1) at 00:59:73:01:44:54 [ether] on eth0
everytime now, but when I try to ping the Gateway I still have no luck at all.
I may just go purchase that router/switch/firewall this week and try again. Also, I was thinking of trying another variant of Linux such as Debian or OpenBSD.
I really appreciate all of your time and help.
Thanks,
Neuro7

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Neuro7:
I tried powering down the cable modem for about a minute then powered it back up with it connected to the Linux box. When I try the /sbin/arp -a command I get: ? (24.159.189.1) at 00:59:73:01:44:54 [ether] on eth0
everytime now, but when I try to ping the Gateway I still have no luck at all.
I may just go purchase that router/switch/firewall this week and try again. Also, I was thinking of trying another variant of Linux such as Debian or OpenBSD.
I really appreciate all of your time and help.
Thanks,
Neuro7

No problem and good luck.  BTW, Debian is probably one of the best versions of Linux, however, it is far from the easiest. Of course I find that the dummied up distros that everyone claim are easier for beginners are harder to me and usually much is broken. Sounds like you have willpower so it may be worth the try.  I also use Debian Linux, and FreeBSD for server stuff.

[ January 13, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]