[102444] in RedHat Linux List
Re: PCI NE2000 card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Swanson)
Thu Dec 3 04:20:18 1998
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From: Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se>
Date: 03 Dec 1998 10:19:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: Dustin Byford's message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 15:24:36 -0700"
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Dustin Byford <dustin@nmsu.edu> writes:
> Michael Khlebnikov wrote:
>> Hi everybody, I've a little problem. I use slackware, kernel 2-0-29.
>> And looks like it doesn't support my NE2000 pci card. There is
>> NE module there. But it doesn't work when I try it with
>> modprobe ( as I understand this module only for ISA cards).
>> I have seen redhat, 2-0-34 where beside NE was another driver NE2k-PCI.
>> And everything worked fine. Is there a way to compile this driver for my
>> 2-0-29 kernel or I should change the whole kernel?
> I think there is a certian point where they started supporting PCI
> NE2000s, and I believe it was a 2.0.3x kernel. It used to be one driver
> for ISA or PCI and then it was changed to one for PCI and one for ISA.
> I know that the 2.0.36 kernel works great for the Linksys PCI NE2000 I
> have at home. I would get 2.0.36 and compile it.
I second that. I have a realtek 8029 which is a pci ne2000. Before
the driver split, I had to tell the kernel where it was, i/o address,
interrupt. This was especially annoying during rh installation.
Nowadays the card is recognized through standard autoprobe.
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