[NTLUG:Discuss] installing issues with lrp on Compaqs

[Minh Duong]

Hi all,

I didn't mean to cause such a ruckus.  My comments
were due to frustration with my Compaq and nothing
else.  It took me two days to setup my Compaq and find
information (which Compaq makes damned difficult to
find.  I thought the knowledge base from Microsucks
was awful).  It took me less than an hour to research
and install the lrp which is *supposed* to be more
difficult.  Anyway, I finally figured out the last
problem and it turns out it was user error.  On my
etc/modules file, I negelected to read the lines that
said:

#For cards below pci-scan is needed
#pci-scan

#PCI cards
tulip
 . . .

Hopefully I can hide behind the excuse that I'm new on
that one because
1) I didn't know pci-scan was a module.
2) I needed it for pci cards not onboard.
3) At 2 am, it's easy to miss the details.
4) It's my first day.
   Es mi dia primera.
   Quack quack quack.
   --(Homer Simpson)


Steve,

I tried a Farrallon 10mbs card, it didn't work so
that's why I thought it was a Compaq issue.

I've had a previous problems with Linksys cards, but I
used it because of the recommendations of other linux
users.  I was running Redhat 7.0 with Linksys LNE100TX
Ver 4.0.  Being new, I kept thinking it was me because
others got their cards to work without a hitch.  After
much research, it turns out that THAT version of
Redhat was exactly incompatible with THAT version of
the card.  If I had used another version of Redhat or
another version of the card, it would have worked. 
Now I have Redhat 7.2 and everything is hunky dory.


Thanks all,

Minh
-----Original Message------------------------------
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 14:13:53 -0500
From: Stephen Davidson <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca>
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] installing issues with
lrp on Compaqs
Reply-To: discuss at ntlugorg

Hi Minh.

My only suggestion is to try another species of
Network card.  I have 
never been able to get a Linksys card to work,
although I am aware that 
others have.  There may be a problem with the network
card 
in question, however.

-Steve


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