For what it's worth, I have been using a PCI NIC with a Winbond chip for a few years with the driver compiled into my kernel (both the ne2k-pci and before that was available the ISA ne2000 driver). As I recall, it was recognized without problems by the installation kernel (bo, I think), which loaded it as a module.
Bob On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 12:51:49AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Hi all - > > I'm doing some superhero work here, rescuing fellow students from the > Gates of hell and introducing them to sweet, brand GNU, true freedom. > > Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(. > > It has a winbond chip in it, and it's supposed to be 'ne2k compatible,' > but the ne2k-pci module won't load. I get some of the more common module > loading errors (device is busy... etc). > > My question is this: does anyone know what to do about not-quite ne2000 > clones (PCI) that won't probe? the card's plug and play, and the kernel sees > it -- a cat of /proc/pci lists the NIC loud and clear, including IRQ and > base I/O address. > > Any help would be appreciated ;) > > -- > ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org > Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
