[Herefordshire] Via Velocity NIC

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Andrew

Have you tried Kanotix? Its like Knoppix but has better hadrware support 
in some areas. I think Kanotix/knoppix have some imaging program, 
assuming it has a driver for your Network card.

Good luck

Julian


Andrew Hodgson wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> Has anyone here got any flavour of Linux to detect a Via Velocity 
> Nic?  I can get Debian on a 2.6 kurnel to detect it, but it fails to 
> find a DHCP server (there is one), and it then fails to continue when 
> I press continue on the installer screen.  I am wondering whether to 
> give this card up and put in a Realtek or similar?  I probably have 
> one lying around, or an older Compaq/Intel that came out of a machine 
> I sold last year.
>  
> Any thoughts?
>  
> On another tack, I am trying to image my disk so that if things go 
> wrong on this live machine I can go back, but unfortunately I am yet 
> to find something that (again) detects this card.  I have tried Ghost 
> with the NDIS drivers but no luck.  Anyone got any ideas?
>  
> Thanks.
> Andrew.
>
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