IBM Thinkpad G40 integrated NIC woes

2003-10-02 Thread David Härdeman
Hi, I recently bought an IBM Thinkpad G40 and I have some problems that I hope that you can help me with. It has an integrated Broadcom 5901 100Mbps NIC, which is supported by: a) Broadcoms own "bcm5700" driver b) The "tg3" driver in the latest 2.4.23-preX and 2.6.0-testX kernels The bcm5700 dr

Re: NIC woes

1999-06-14 Thread Robert Rati
I believe you can pass lilo options like that with the append command. Look for it in the lilo or lilo.conf manpages. Rob On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Julienna Chu wrote: > Guys, > > My NIC is not detected properly whe nI boot up. I have t

Re: NIC woes

1999-06-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Julienna Chu wrote: > Can I just stick in > ether= 11,0x300,0,0,eth0 in lilo.conf and make it work? > > THere's got to be a more efficent way to make this work. > from the BootPrompt HOWTO: --- the LILO append= command is of

Re: NIC woes

1999-06-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
Julienna Chu wrote: > > Guys, > > My NIC is not detected properly whe nI boot up. I have to pass the > irq, etc. options thorugh lilo to make Debian recognize it properly. > > i.e. At the lilo prompt O enter, > > lilo=linux ether= 11,0x300,0,0,eth0 > > Can I just stick in > ether= 11,0x300,0,0

NIC woes

1999-06-14 Thread Julienna Chu
Guys, My NIC is not detected properly whe nI boot up. I have to pass the irq, etc. options thorugh lilo to make Debian recognize it properly. i.e. At the lilo prompt O enter, lilo=linux ether= 11,0x300,0,0,eth0 Can I just stick in ether= 11,0x300,0,0,eth0 in lilo.conf and make it work? THere'