network detection problem (Alexander and John)

[jludwig]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 18:58, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz recommended:
> > From what I googled this card has one of those chips
> > 
> > PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter(DEC21140)
> > PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter(DEC21143)
> > 
> > Unfortunately Linksys has no manual or specs sheet on their site for
> > that older card.
> > 
> > As the card is not automatically detected and configured by kudzu there
> > might be a problem. I remember that some years ago we had problems with
> > a specific kind of SMC cards, which had the DEC21140 chip too and it was
> > impossible to get the driver running. So try
> > 
> > modprobe -v tulip
> 
> If that doesn't work, reboot (to unload the tulip driver) and try again
> with de4x5.
> 
> James.
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Why not rmmod tulip??
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