On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:33:18PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: >#include <hallo.h> >* Jason Lim [Wed, Jul 02 2003, 10:51:35PM]: > >> 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. >
Can you be more specific about broadcom drivers (the red hat bug report wasn't). I had a heck of a time installing on a dell laptop which required a pcmcia card to get the install along enough to download a kernel and Xfree, I bet the linux broadcom net driver was on a cd though. here's a rough write up http://galis.org/doc/dell.inspiron.1100.html (with references to RH bugzilla) Just as frustrating (and I don't know the timetable with the bf2.4 and realtek drivers) is the missing realtek, I have a 'bunch' of realtek cards I picked up for $5 each, but I have to put in a tulip card to get through the install. Realtek is in next boot floppies, great. In the next gen boot floppies I would suggest making one for each type of driver, eg all the drivers/net might fit on one, so people using floppies don't need the whole set; also why not make all or virtually all the modules under such a system. If somebody has disk space issues they can rm unneeded ones before they continue the install. Plus a 20Mb install cdrom that works with virtually everything would be okay. (actually install disk driver issues kept me away from debian for over a year.) // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 646-331-2027 <IXOYE>< Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
