Linux NIC question.....

[Wolfie]

Farallon PN593 uses the DEC21041 chip set.

Is this compatable with linux and where can I find the driver for it?

And no I didn't buy this nic. It was given to me when my other nic didn't work with mediaone's cable setup.

Thanks.....

Wolf

 

[Menelaos]

Should be no problem. Just enable support for the DEC chip in the kernel.

Menel.

 

[Damaged]

Which is other wise known as the tulip chipset. You'll need the latest tulip driver, but if you're running a recent distro it's probably already in there.

If you've got it installed already then, as root, try insmod tulip. Module should load, then you can finish configuring the rest of the stuff.

If not, then see what you're system sees as the NIC dmesg | grep ^eth.

For example on my firewall, with two NICs my output looks like so:

eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0x6000, 00:C0:F0:30:30:5F, IRQ 12.
eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0x6100, 00:A0:CC:24:41:EF, IRQ 11.
eth1: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 41e1.
eth1: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 05e1.