[ale] DirecTV DSL and RH Linux 7.1

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Tue Feb 19 13:48:54 EST 2002


Has the kernel been configured to support the Tulip driver? And do you
see eth0 if you run ifconfig?


On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 13:37, Jim Seymour wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	Just got DirecTV DSL the other weekend and am trying to sort out some 
> problems with the connection.  The instructions for linux basically say 
> enable DHCP and reboot.  ADSL times out everytime I boot linux and I 
> have to start it (interface) manually with the Network Configurator. I 
> am totally new to networking so please excuse what is probably a simple 
> question to most of you. As you can guess it starts up perfectly under 
> macroslop98. Should I have something special in my modules.conf? Right 
> now its "alias eth0 tulip" for the Linksys LNE100TX card.  TIA for any 
> and all help.
> -- 
> 
> 
> Jim Seymour
> ICQ 60268553
> jseymou5 at bellsouth.net
> I use OS/2 Warp 4 and Red Hat Linux 7.1
> Windows is best used to eat up space on an oversized
> partition.
> 
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