I have two set up, a CL6000 Dual Lan for my server and an M10000 as a little desktop cube.
Debian 3.0r2 had no problem with the M10000 (single ethernet) using the via-rhine driver. On the dual lan, however, only eth0 was recognized. Upgraded to sid (possibly not necessary but I was planning on it anyway) and compiled a 2.6.0-test11 kernel and all was good (oddly enough what had been eth0 was now eth1 and the one that had been previously unrecognized was now eth0).
Also, the current sarge/sid installers are unusable with the m10000 (never tried it with the cl6000 though) but it is no problem since you can just dist-upgrade from Woody. The Woody installer works flawlessly.
Good luck.
On Feb 28, 2004, at 7:14 PM, Chris Evans wrote:
I hope I can get some help on this list as I've dug myself in a hole I think.
I run debian stable (3.0r2) for a small home set up on ADSL that handles Email (closed opt in!) for some charities. I've used old hardware for a firewall and a server but the firewall is dying and I replaced it with a lovely, small, near silent box with a VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboard which has two LAN ports controlled by a VT6105 on board controller. If I stick a tried and tested realtek 8139 clone PCI card in I can have the three ports I want ....
Having always used old hardware and never hit compatibility problems I didn't realise I was asking for trouble. The 2.4.18 kernel is the latest in the Debian stable distro and I want to stick with Debian 'cos I know and trust it, and stable 'cos of the security updates, particularly important as this is firewall. Trouble is that I think the driver I need is a via-rhine one but the one that comes with that Debian kernel won't install (the rtl one does fine!). I've tried pulling the driver (rhinefet) off the VIA motherboard site and the via-rhine off the scyld site but I'm hopelessly out of my depth now as there are clearly old and vexatious issues about the ways that different distros store the headers and source, e.g. both VIA and scyld's Makefiles and source want a modversions.h file that clearly doesn't exist in Debian .. I've tried to work round that but modprobe on the via-rhine.o I finally produced gives all sorts of unresolved symbol complaints and I know I'm out of my league here.
Can anyone help? The only alternative I can see looming is to spend about a third as much as I paid for the entire machine on a totally unnecessarily fast quadport Intel card (I need three ports and only have one free PCI slot as the machine is so small).
Sod, sod, sod: I'll take hardware compatibility more seriously in future won't I?!
TIA,
Chris
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