Guest DW Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 Hi, Im pretty new to Mandrake and Linux for that matter. I have Leared the basics but I am totally stuck with this one. I installed Mandrake VIA my current WindowXP Network, that was fine no problems. I have have Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop, everything is running great apart from my network. How do I install my DLINK dfe-680tx cardbus network card in linux? I need it for my net access, through my proxy. Thank you in advance for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 Hi According to THIS website, your card is ready for Linux. So you have to find the name of the driver (maybe 8139too) and load it. To load it you have to become root and modprobe the driver as follow su >>enter password<< modprobe DriveName Now bring the network up by typing as root again ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 up Check if the driver is loaded by typing lsmod Check your network config by typing ifconfig Search Google to find your card's driver name before! Did you try to set the network via the Mandrake Control Center (MCC)? If you find nothing, reboot and post the output of 'lsmod', 'ifconfig' and 'lspci'. Is the card connected through a PCMCIA card? .. because according to THIS website, the card is supported in the PCMCIA package. HTH MottS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DW Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 Yes, it is a PCMCIA card. I think the driver it uses is axnet_cs. when i tried to bring up the card with ifconfig eth0 10.10.10.3 up and it said SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: unknown interface: No such device eth0: unknown interface: No such device what should i be looking for in lsmod? ifconfig says lo link encap:local loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0 up loopback running mtu@16436 metric:1 rx packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 tx packet:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 rx bytes:3792 (3.7 kb) TX bytes:3792 (3.7 kb) does any of this help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted May 2, 2003 Report Share Posted May 2, 2003 ifconfig says lo link encap:local loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0 up loopback running mtu@16436 metric:1 rx packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 tx packet:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 rx bytes:3792 (3.7 kb) TX bytes:3792 (3.7 kb) does any of this help? Ok so if you only have lo, that means that the card isn't initialized and no IP was given to it. Since this is a PCMCIA card, I guess you should take a look at those websites (read .. READ THE WHOLE THING :lol: ) : http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Hardwa...WTO/pcmcia.html http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/P...MCIA-HOWTO.html http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ What I understand from the above link (note that I don't have any PCMCIA cards in my computer nor have a laptop) is that you have to load a special driver with an _cb (underline cb) at the end of the driver's name. So according to the first above link, the driver needed by your card is tulip_cb. So I would first check if the driver is loaded by typing lsmod as root. You should get something like that (my output here). root@localhost gd # lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P sr_mod 15672 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 27080 0 (autoclean) cdrom 25824 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd] floppy 45820 0 (autoclean) eeprom 3668 0 w83781d 20368 0 i2c-amd756 3664 0 (unused) i2c-proc 6640 0 [eeprom w83781d] i2c-core 13224 0 [eeprom w83781d i2c-amd756 i2c-proc] nls_iso8859-1 2780 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4316 1 (autoclean) usb-ohci 17512 0 (unused) usbcore 54624 1 [usb-ohci] ide-scsi 7568 0 scsi_mod 51572 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] nvidia 1547840 10 emu10k1 55464 0 sound 50708 0 [emu10k1] ac97_codec 9384 0 [emu10k1] soundcore 3300 7 [emu10k1 sound] 8139too 14024 1 mii 2016 0 [8139too] The drivers that are loaded are listed at the left. So check if you see tulip_cb inthere. If you don't see it then load the driver by typing as root modprobe tulip_cb and retype lsmod to make sure it is loaded. Now I guess you could try to bring the card up by typing something like that as root ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 up Report what you did here and read the second link before trying what I told you.. as I'm just guessing PCMCIA cards works exactly as PCI cards here. You may have to do something else .. ?? .. One more thing.. did you installed Linux with the card in? and do you have a pcmcia entry in /etc/rc.d/init.d ? HTH MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DW Posted May 2, 2003 Report Share Posted May 2, 2003 I dont have to worry about that now, i already corrected that. I have both eth0 and lo now. I just need to find out how and where i configure protacals, dns, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted May 2, 2003 Report Share Posted May 2, 2003 I dont have to worry about that now, i already corrected that. I have both eth0 and lo now. I just need to find out how and where i configure protacals, dns, etc Could you explain what you did to make it work for further reference? Look in the MCC for config tools .. MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DW Posted May 2, 2003 Report Share Posted May 2, 2003 Ok sure. Ok I was reding through the docs that come with Mandrake and I read abit about IPX connections. It went on to tell me about if i setup the scripts different to the default it would work. It never did but I will tell you where they are. Ok, In the documentation, which Im sure you know can be found by clicking the gnome or kde button it the bottom left. There are sections that I worked through. I got the ideas of the changes from; In the HowTo docs i found; Linux PCMCIA HOWTO DHCP mini-HOWTO DNS HOWTO Linux IPX-HOWTO There all I worked through and it did get my card to work just dont actually work correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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