This is enough to drive a soul back to the dark side...

[xon]

Alright, I've been lucky enough to be visited by lightening, and had to replace my NIC. Well, not so much replace as add a new one. The one that got fried was an on-board NIC, and it's only fried enough to not work, but the computer still thinks it's there. Anyway, I went out and got a Linksys LNE100TX NIC, and put the thing in. Now all over the internet I have read about how it's extremely compatible and how it works perfectly with Linux, etc, but nowhere have I found anything that actually worked.

I've gathered that I'm probably going to be using tulip, so I tried enabling that module in my kernel, but it didn't list anything that looked remotely correct under tulip (kernel 2.6.14). I finally found the place where Linksys has the tulip drivers up for download and downloaded that. The problem is that you have to compile the drivers. Their command for compiling the drivers doesn't even begin to work, and if you use the makefile that comes with it you get tons of compile errors.

Now for my questions:

1) How exactly am I supposed to get this new NIC to work under linux?

2) How do I tell it to forget about the old NIC so that I don't have to wait forever for it to try to pick up DHCP for it every time I boot?

Thanks for any help you can provide, you may just keep me from going back to Winblows!

[Headrush]

[xon]

Thanks for the idea about the BIOS, never noticed that option before.

As for the other part, yeah... never mind. it works. I don't know how nor why it works, but somehow I forced it to work, and I'm inclined to not care how nor why as long as it keeps working.