Re: Help! with Linksys Etherfast LNE 100 TX

Allen Brown (abrown-nospam@nospam.com)
Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:32:50 -0500


yangboy@math.ntu.edu.tw wrote:
> I bought a "Switched network in a box" kit from Cyberian Outpost
> after reading an article in Linux Journal. But I am having problems just
> getting the included 10/100 PCI NICs to run. When I try to use DEC Tulip
> drivers, I get "Delayed eth0 initialization" when booting and dmesg shows
> "unknown Tulip type PCI NIC" or something similar. Can someone help? I'm
> running a straight Red Hat Linux 6.1 out of the box on a old PII/233.
>
> The card has a sticker with "Linksys C98-00538247 LNE100A0" on
> the back and the chip in front says Linksys LNE100TX ....."
>
> Thanks in advance for any help rendered or any tips ...

I've worked with three of these cards. One of them is a later revision
and works best with a later rev of the tulip driver. The older ones
require
an older driver.

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