[ale] Connecting with SUSE 10.0

[j.t. holmes]

Why not invest in a PCI network card, or wireless card if you Router is 
Wireless.

>I am running a dual boot with XP but I don't see how that would effect 
>anything.
>
>Would it help to install another driver?  I see, by running the find 
>command, that tulip is always a directory. If I could find another driver, 
>how would I install it?
>
>I have a friend who is running SUSE 10.0 on a newer machine and he is 
>having no problem.  I guess that the driver for his chip set is OK.
>
>I am running a 2.0 gig Dell  which is about 3 years old.
>
>The NIC is :
>
>         Davicom 21x4x DEC-Tulip 10/100 Ethernet
>
>The Hardware Configuration Name is:
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>         bus-pci-0000:02:09.0
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>At 08:16 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:
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>>Pinging the NIC doesn't use the driver. You are touching the software
>>layer above the driver.
>>
>>On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 19:36 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
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>>
>>>I can ping the NIC (e.g., ping 192.168.1.100).  Should I be able to ping
>>>the NIC if the dirver was not working?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>At 03:23 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:
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>>>      
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>>>>On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:48 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>When I run dmesg, every line is:
>>>>>
>>>>>         tulip_stop_rxtx( )  failed
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>This line shows that the tulip driver is having some problems. I would:
>>>>
>>>>a. make sure that is the correct driver
>>>>b. see what happens if the driver is unloaded and then reloaded.
>>>>c. get a different NIC. The tulip  driver is for a really old chipset
>>>>that was notoriously buggy.
>>>>
>>>>
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