network pci card "pnic100" with tulip driver - no

hds

hi,
meanwhile i have setup 2 systems with gentoo succesfully, but shakeing my head with this problem

i have setup a new machine from scratch. unfortunately i just have an older NIC laying around. the chip says "PNIC 100" and the card was running fine using an older SuSE 7.3 (ya, time to update, so why not using gentoo

)

i am able to modprobe the tulip driver fine.
it shows up running "lsmod".
"ifconfig eth0" gives no IP using DHCP
manual ifconfig works, but i am only able to ping localhost.

if i plugin my realtek and modprobe the 8139too everything works fine, so i assume the rest of the environment is OK

someone around with the same card who might have an idea? the card was bought a few years ago at a wellknown store in germany called "Atelco", so maybe someone has the same card.

btw: i do not get the card to work from the livecd either (2004.2). i am that far that i installed the complete base system from CD, but now its time to "emerge sync" :lol:

adaptr · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:37 am Post subject:

If the LiveCD fails to detect & activate the card then the chipset may not have a kernel module...

Have you tried Googling for the NIC and a linux driver ?
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instinctgone · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 5

http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/nicpak/liteon.zip

That is about the best I can do for you, unfortunately I do not have the card to try it myself........hope it works.

hds · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:27 pm Post subject:

hds · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:31 pm Post subject:

@adaptr

i am still searching, but without success currently. i wonder why SuSE 7.3 detects the card fine

this is my lsmod from the SuSE machine:

adaptr · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:32 pm Post subject:

Can you post the output of ifconfig after you've given the card an IP address ?
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hds · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject:

hds · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject:

hum.. could it be, that the driver is still broken in 2.4.27??

http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=linux.kernel.000701c151c4%240e6933e0%240300a8c0%40theburbs.com&rnum=9&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dpnic%2Btulip%2Bdhcp%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3Dlinux.kernel.000701c151c4%25240e6933e0%25240300a8c0%2540theburbs.com%26rnum%3D9

argh: http://tulip.sourceforge.net/ does not exist

hds · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:16 am Post subject:

i will try this one later this day - maybe it already helps others here:
http://www.clagi.de/home/tulip-patches/82c168_tulip.html

the text mentions 80c168, while the URL mentions 82c168. i myself own a 82c168 and will report later if it worked for me.

btw: "They are sent to Donald Becker in May 1998 but he hasn't included them into the driver until now."
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napoleonb · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 141

tulip drivers have always been problematic for me with the 2.4.X kernel series. It came to a point where I used the module from the original author instead (Donald Becker) which were included in the kernel sources up until the 2.2.X series. If you want, you can try his driver which are still available and work great. here is the link:

http://www.scyld.com/tulip.html