Hi,

according to Linksys homepage the cards currently sold should be 
still DEC Tulip equipped. Their support page have a topic about 
Linux driver problems like this:  

"If you encounter errors while the Tulip driver is loading, see if the err=
ors look similar to this:

	Kernel: Found Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at PCI I/O address 0x0.
	Initialization of tulip failed 

Try doing a cat /proc/pci and see if a message similar to this appears:

	Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
      Ethernet controller: Lite-on LNE100TX (rev 32).
      Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. 
      Master Capable. No bursts. I/O at 0x0.

If you see these messages, your PC's BIOS is probably configured incorrect=
ly. Refer to your PC's motherboard documentation for help."


To me this pretty much looks samiliar to your problem, as Linksys 
homepage is not too communicative to the "configuration of your PC 
bios" I can=B4t tell what needs to be changed. Linksys homepage 
describes problems with Via chipsets and I had problems with my 
3Com card and the VP3 chipset too, but I can=B4t remember what 
went wrong and what solved the problem (some bios setting changes 
did the trick), the problem existed under NT too.

I would recommend to contact Linksys tech support for a solution or 
a closer description of the bios setting changes needed.

mike 


On 10 Jan 00, at 2:10, Richard Rauch wrote:

> A little over a year ago, it looked like I was going to have a use for
> Ethernet.  On someone's dated recommendation, I bought a Linksys card (t=
he
> recommendation had been given when they still used DEC Tulip chips; I ha=
ve
> no idea what they were using when I bought the card, and didn't know tha=
t
> they had switched).
> 
> I figured that I'd see NetBSD support for it before long, and would soon=
er
> or later want the card anyway, so I didn't bother seeing if I could retu=
rn
> it.  I had the impression that the card was going to be supported in 1.4=
,
> but that didn't happen.  It is currently detected by the system as a
> ``Lite-On Communications'' product, and is even known to be an Ethernet
> card.  It does not seem to be supported, though.
> 
> That's history.  I want to know a few things:
> 
> Is it supported in -current?
> 
> If so, then is it reasonable to expect it to be supported in 1.5, whenev=
er
> that comes around?
> 
> If it's supported in -current, how much work would it be to snag it and
> drop it into a 1.4.x kernel?  (Bear in mind that I'm comfortable buildin=
g
> a kernel, and passable at C programming, but don't know the kernel
> internals.)
> 
> 
> ...if need be, I can pull the case open and look for chips on the Ethern=
et
> board, but I don't know which ones to look for offhand, and assume that
> someone out there knows more about these cards.  (I vaguely remember
> someone implying that he just missed a cut-off date to import the driver
> into the 1.4 kernel, last spring.)
> 
> 
>   "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  --rkr@rkr.kcnet.com
>