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Red Hat 4.1 ftp install problem: ethernet



On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Charles Young wrote:

> I have done several ftp installs with supported hardware.  They were a breeze!
>  Now, I am trying to load this distribution onto a Digital Multia P-100 which
> has a 21040-AA ethernet card on board.  I found "tulip" drivers, but I am in
> terra incognita here.  Should I compile a kernel with this driver and replace
> the install kernel on the boot disk?  Can/should this be done?  I had thought
> of installing an older version where I had more choices in boot images, but
> this seems suboptimal.

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).





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