Red Hat 4.1 ftp install problem: ethernet

[cyoung at noc.bbn.com (Charles Young)]

My thanks go out to Mark and Derek for their suggestions for my little problem.  

I should have been more clear in my original message that this Digital Multia
is based on an Intel architecture with a pentium P-100.  The problem is that
after I load the second install disk and run the script I am presented with
about five drivers for an ethernet card, none of which mention "tulip" or
"21040".  Fearing nothing, I have tried all of them (Autoprobing -- without
specifying additional options, because I am unsure what they might be) but the
drivers fail to recognize the card as I am using them.  Perhaps these drivers
will work if I give them the right parameters?  If not, I am unsure how to get
an ftp install to fly if I need to modify the install disks.

I am, eh,  a little at odds with the NT administrator (we have 30 Multias
running NT), because he is worried people might like linux better than NT if my
demo succeeds, so it has been difficult to get base and interrupt information
out of him -- also, I suspect he does not know ;-).  Any ideas?  I have not
gathered any useful information from Digital's web server so far, but there is
always tomorrow...(one hopes).

On Mar 14,  2:02am, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
 
> The 21040 is a "Tulip" card, so it should work with that driver.  It's a
> PCI card, so detection should be completely automatic.
> 
> I haven't installed Linux of any sort on an Alpha yet.  I do know that
> on an Intel machine, you don't worry about having LAN drivers built into
> the distribution kernel at all; they get loaded as modules from the
> second install disk.  You only need special kernels to use SCSI drivers
> that don't work as modules (notably the Adaptec 2x40 driver).
> 
> 
>-- End of excerpt from Mark J. Dulcey



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