From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Re: Netconfig Fail Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 09:33:19 +0800 Message-ID: <20051009093319.584ebc9b.heisspf@skyinet.net> References: <20051008143336.4b907ad5.heisspf@skyinet.net> <4347ED53.50105@comarre.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4347ED53.50105@comarre.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:01:23 -0700 Ray Olszewski 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs