Hi Eduard, > > Nowadays, many motherboards have built-in ethernet ports. The most common > > seem to be either the SiS chipset (SIS900) or Intel's one (don't know what > > model number... but i think eepro or something?) > > > > Realtek is the most common PCI one... virtually all cheap PCI LAN cards > > have Realtek chipsets. > > All mentioned cards are supported by the bf2.4 kernel or will be > supported by the next generations of boot-floppies. What is your > problem? The broadcom things are not supported just because the stupid > drivers are not part of the normal vanilla kernel.
Never heard of "broadcom" on a motherboard... never used one... never seen one... so no complaints from me. I just hope the boot floppies in the next stable version will support these very common chipsets, because i remember when installing the current stable, it is a headache. > > Not THAT many. > > > > Actually, I like the way Redhat does it. IMHO Redhat has one of the best > > installation "procedures" going. With the 3ware card installed, it > > automatically loads up the 3wxxxx.o (i think that's what it's called?). > > bf2.4 loads the 3ware driver. Some exotic controllers are only supported > if you insert a module-preload disk with scsi drivers and load them > manually. There is no good way to fix it, we cannot include every driver > on _one_ floppy. Perhaps have "the one" floppy detect what is needed, and then direct the user to either download/insert the other relevent driver disk? Bah, you guys know more about this stuff. I'm just a sysadmin that uses it... so not sure if it is even possible... or advantageous, to have a "detection" thing tell the user to download a certain driver to a disk. maybe the detection routines would be too long/big/complicated? I think there is a hardware detection project already? > MfG, > Eduard. > -- > <cray> knopper wie ich mitbekommen habe hast du irgendwie etwas mit knoppix zu > tun, .. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
