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From: Peter <heisspf@skyinet.net>
To: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netconfig Fail
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 09:33:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051009093319.584ebc9b.heisspf@skyinet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4347ED53.50105@comarre.com>

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:01:23 -0700
Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com> wrote:

> Peter -- The new NIC is not a standard tulip NIC. It is a Davicom NIC 
> (see Slack's dmesg output) and needs the dmfe module, not the tulip 
> module. (Yes, I know Slackware *thinks* it needs the tulip module; 
> Slackware is wrong. Or perhaps you are, if you added it by hand.)

No slackware added it.

> Both Fedora and DSL get it right. Look in the lsmod output from the 2 
> distros that work and you will see that dmfe is present but not tulip. 
> Also review the dmesg output you sent us.
> 
> Finally ... Peter, once you sent all this stuff, it took me less than a 
> minute to spot the problem. I mention this because so often I ask (you 
> and others) for a complete problem description, not a fragmentary one. 
> It can make a real difference in ease and speed of troubleshooting.
> 
It seems it needs always someone like you to help to put on the right shoes.

Yes, I saw it myself as well when I had all the sent outputs that I need the dmfe module. When I tried to install it I got an error message. Did not catch it. Have to go over to slackware gain and will let you know.

Thanks & regards
-- 
Peter
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-09  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-08 18:33 Netconfig Fail Peter
2005-10-08 16:01 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-10-09  1:33   ` Peter [this message]
2005-10-09  7:04     ` Peter
2005-10-09 15:29     ` Peter
2005-10-09 18:00       ` chuck gelm
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-09  7:08 Peter
2005-10-06 13:15 Peter
2005-10-06  7:33 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-10-07 16:23   ` Peter
2005-10-07  5:49     ` Ray Olszewski
2005-10-07 11:20     ` chuck gelm
2005-10-07 17:23       ` Ray Olszewski
2005-10-08 15:43         ` Peter
2005-10-08 15:22       ` Peter
2005-10-07 11:36     ` chuck gelm
2005-10-08 15:39       ` Peter
2005-10-08  4:18         ` Ray Olszewski
     [not found] ` <200510052204.15272.david@fierbaugh.org>
2005-10-06 14:54   ` Peter
2005-10-06 12:53     ` David Fierbaugh
2005-10-06 18:52 ` chuck gelm

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