[sclug] SiS onboard LAN troubles

[Philip Hands]

At Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:35:03 +0000 (GMT),
Alex Butcher (lug) wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Philip Hands wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:29:39 +0000 (GMT),
> > Alex Butcher (lug) wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, James Fidell wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > > Intel Pro100/VE ethernet. Unfortunately, the kernel supplied with Debian
> > > 3.0r0 doesn't support this variant of the ethernet chipset, though RH8.0
> > > does.
> > 
> > Have you tried the "bf24" kernel?
> 
> Yup, that was the kernel I was using. I think the /VE variant is a CNR
> (rather than PCI) device. I've now got a couple of plain PCI Pro100s, so at
> some point I'll probably re-install Debian and see if one of the updated
> Debian kernels (downloaded via a non-VE interface!) detects the /VE.
> 
> FYI, RH8.0 uses Intel's e100.o (v 2.1.6) from recent errata kernels (BSD/GPL
> licensed), and eepro100.o included in the release kernel.

You could always just build your own (from the redhat sources, even).

If you want to do it the Debian way, install the "kernel-package"
package, and follow what it says in

  /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz

after:

   For the Brave and the impatient:

or you could always read all of it if you are so inclined (not that I
ever bothered :-)

Cheers, Phil.