[Herefordshire] Via Velocity NIC

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Andrew,

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?

Well according to my kernel configuration thingy the card is supported.
 What error messages are output?  Anything output from the actual driver
in the kernel when it is loaded (dmesg should help here)?

Thanks
Mark