Tulip driver, farallon card -- solved

Lynne Cooney yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Apr 8 00:08:00 2002


On 4/4/02 1:22 PM, "Lynne Cooney" <ilynne@mindspring.com> wrote:

I downloaded the 2.1 iso and tried the install from that cd. It worked
perfectly.

> Link light is on, but no others. I had this problem a few years ago
> installing linuxppc on the same umax. I recall that I had to recompile a
> kernel with tulip support. But I see that the driver exists in the modules,
> so I'm trying to insmod it. The card is at 0x0800 with irq 23. When I try to
> insmod tulip, I get "Device or resource busy."
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction? Obviously, network access is
> super important. I was going to take my own oft-repeated advice: "Just get a
> 3Com card." But they are $100, and this is an old machine, and I HAD the
> card working in linuxppc. But it wasn't easy, and of course, my notes are
> gone.
> 
> Lynne
> 
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