Nonworking Tulip ethernet driver?

[Shawn Coomey]

Jeff-
Who needs a video card? Video cards are for wimps! ;)

But seriously, can you add some output of you insmod attempt, and maybe the 
output of /var/log/dmesg, then maybe we can debug a bit for you.

Shawn


 

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 01:39, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Under YDL 2.2 and the Linux 2.2 kernel, ethernet works great on my system
> (Performa 6400).  However, under the 2.4 kernel, it doesn't work at all.  A
> couple other list messages suggested using the generic DEC DE4X5 driver
> instead of the Tulip driver.
>
> I'm very new to Linux and was unable to get the "INSMOD DE4X5" command to
> work.  Can someone please point me in the right direction with this?  Also,
> why would the Tulip driver suddenly break in the 2.4 kernel?
>
> I'd just use the 2.2 kernel and be done with it but it doesn't like my
> video card, so I'm stuck with 2.4.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Jeff
>
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