Ho hum, do hope I haven't got myself ahead of Debian hardware compatibility.
Situation is that I have to replace an ageing three port firewall on my home/ADSL network. I wanted something small and quiet so have bought a little box with a VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX motherboard which has two ethernet ports. The manual says: "LAN: dual LAN VIA VT6105 LOM 10 / 100 Base-T Ethernet VT6103 PHY" to provide the third port the suppliers had put in an SMC 1255 TX-PF PCI ethernet card. Debian stable boot disks (compact version) showed "eth0 VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xc800, 00:40.... rest of MAC, IRQ 12 MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x78?? [can't read own handwriting] advertising 05e1 Link 0000" and when I took the SMC card out and rebooted I think things changed and dmesg now shows: "3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others ... pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices... via-rhine.c:v1.08b-KL1.01.1 12/14/2000 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html"; However, when I get to the installation of network drivers in the Debian installation sequence, I select the via-rhine drivers and offer no parameters and get: "/lib/modules/2.2.20-compact/net/via-rhine.0: init_module: Device or resource busy" ... and the rest of the failure notice. Has anyone succeeded in installing the network drivers on this motherboard? It's moderately crippling to me at the moment as the machine (silly me) hasn't got a CDROM as I've never had problems with the floppy and network installation route in the past. TIA, Chris PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, teaching and consultancy. Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle http://psyctc.org/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
