Guest popgroove Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 I just installed mandrake tonight, this was my first experience ever with linux. Everything went suprisingly smooth, except I can't connect to the internet. What I'm doing: I go to Network & Internet Configuration Choose lan connection Manual Choice (the only option) I've tried every driver on the list to no avail I go to my hardware it shows a network card, here are the details Vendor: DEC Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1011:14 Location on the bus: 0:12:0 Description: DECchip 21041 [Tulip pass 3] Module: de2104x Media class: NETWORK_ETHERNET I tried a net search, but it turned up a few esoteric articles at best..... any help would be appreciated, remember I'm as new as they get when replying... Thanks!!! mark [moved from Hardware by spinynorman - welcome to the board :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Hi, Mark. Well, maybe we can fix that problem... First question: what mandrake version do you run on your comp? 9.2 or 10.0? Community or official edition? What is the exact name of the network card (maybe I can find the driver-link on the net)? Which Kernel are you running? (2.6.x or 2.4.x) What you need to know is that, if the network-device is unknown to the Kernel, then linux selects usually a network device that is somehow similar to the one you are actually running, but it is not identical, so you won't be able to activate it (I experienced that the hard way with a 90 € dsl-ethernetmodem... ). So, we will try to find the right driver module. If we can't find the right driver (= your network card is not supported by linux-kernel) then there is still the possibility to buy a new ethernet card. They are quite cheap. Mine cost me 6,90 € and that should be affordable. But before we get to that, we will give everything a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streeter Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Hurried reply (missus is nagging me!!): Type lsmod | grep de2104x Then see the "Unrecognized Tulip board in Mdk 10" thread in this forum for some ideas. Ask here if you need further help. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest popgroove Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Thanks for the responses so far..... I installed Mandrake 10.0 Official. When I type lsmod | grep de2104x nothing happens, it just goes back to the prompt when I type lsmod | grep tulip (per the mdk 10 thread) it returns tulip 45248 0 I type ifconfig eth1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up (with my ipaddress) i get SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Eth1: unkown interface: No such device any thoughts? i've read further but not getting anywhwere also I'm inputting these commands by going to Start-System-Terminals-Console,,, after I'm in there I click session-new root console and enter my commands... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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