LinkSys LNE100TX - need help setting up.

[dariddlah]

Ok, i got Gentoo installed and can now boot to it using Grub. However, no matter what i try i cant get internet to work. I realize i need the tulip driver, but i have no idea how to compile it. When i check the modules i already have, all i have is dummy.o. any help would be appreciated.

[reillyeon]

You need to go into the kernel config.

[tflecht]

I'm having similar problems, and haven't figured out a solution yet. I have a linksys LNE100TX v4 card, and had the following strange experience:

I burned the 1.4 rc3 stage 1 installation CD, and after booting with it, could not get the tulip (or any other) driver to work with the card.

Eventually, having run out of things that seemed logical to try, I booted with the LiveCD (still from 1.4 rc3). Now the card worked! Whatever driver its using however, is built into the kernel (as opposed to being a module), so I don't know what driver is being used.

I went through all the steps on the installation page (succesfully, I think), including building a kernel from the gentoo sources and adding the tulip driver as a module, and rebooted. When the system came up, again the card didn't work. I explicitly loaded the tulip module and configured the interface and set the default gateway by hand, but no dice. The driver loads, and my ifconfig command seems to succeed (running ifconfig eth0 reports the correct information), but I can't ping another host on my lan. Using ifconfig, the eth0 interface is certainly using very different irq and IO ranges than when I was running with LiveCD.

Does anyone know what drivers the LiveCD supplies for networking? I looked at the logs, and it wasn't obvious to me which one was installed (it tries for maybe a dozen different ones).

thanks!
-tim

[ptbarnett]

[tflecht]

well, the livcd recognized my card, i just can't get any kernel that *i* build to do so. that's why i'd like to know what driver is being compiled into the kernel booted from the livecd.

-tim

[ptbarnett]