At 09:54 AM 6/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Saturday 02 June 2001 21:41, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > Thanks to those who helped me with my computer today at the Port Richie
>
>I didn't actually help much, but you're certainly welcome. I thought that was
>a pretty good meeting, considering 3 different people brought machines and
>got help. One person there wanted Linux to use an INtel Ether Express card
>(NIC) and he tried 3 different distributions with no luck. I felt bad
>because I couldn't help him. He had several different OSs on the computer and
>Linux was the only one that refused to use the NIC.
>Would anyone know about these cards? Do you have to pass a parameter to
>insmod to get different versions of the card to work? I think there was a
>module on there when he got done with the last distro install (RH7.1) called
>eepro.o , but using modprobe eepro only gave errors and ifconfig listed
>nothing for eth0.
I've delurked early, because this it something I actually know about. It
seems that the newest version of the Intel EtherExpress chipset isn't
supported by the eepro driver. I had one of the new Intel motherboards
with the same chipset as the card and tried installing RH7.1 and had the
same problems. I ended up turning off the NIC in BIOS and going to a
RealTek card instead that was recognized right away and worked fine.
Hopefully an updated driver will be available soon, because the Intel mobos
are really nice, and the audio, video were also recognized by Kudzu right
off without having to find any other driver files.
VT
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