The Microsoft MN-130 PCI Ethernet Adapter seems to use the chip ADMtek
AN983B, and thus the driver "tulip" is the appropriate driver.
HOWEVER: Microsoft appears to have overwritten the manufacturer code and
device code normally associated with the AN983B chipset, which is why it
cannot
be detected if one uses an unmodified tulip driver (thus, the suggestion on
the ADMtek web page doesn't work either... :-/).
Anyway, to make a long story short, all one has to do is the following:
1. Open the tulip source file as root, i.e. open
" /usr/src/linux-***/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c "
Here, *** refers to the kernel version, in this case for example "2.4".
(Make sure you have the kernel sources installed...)
2. Add the following line (without the quotation marks)
" {0x1414, 0x0002, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, COMET}, "
to "static struct pci_device_id tulip_pci_tbl[] __devinitdata = ..."
starting at line 201 and save.
3. Recompile the module (probably easiest by "cd /usr/src/linux-***/" and
then "make modules", followed by "make modules_install"), or recompile the
whole kernel with module support for "DEC 21*40 and clones" chipsets (this
is
the
tulip driver module...). The latter may be necessary if the tulip module was
for some reason excluded before (try "make xconfig" and see what the current
configuration is...)
4. Restart your computer, and kudzu should recognize the card, which then
allows you to configure IP address, etc, as usual.
There are probably more elegant solutions out there, but it seems to work: I
am using the MN-130 right now for connecting my RedHat desktop to a Windows
computer :-)
Good luck!
Stephan
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