Re: The state of NIC drivers..

[Andreas Krebs sap-ag de]

> Can anyone tell me the state of NIC drivers in the new kernels? Does the
> NIC have to be supported in the ALPHABIOS or can we get away with other
> chipsets?

i don't think the have to be supported in the alphabios, as long as you
don't want to boot from the network. i have tested a de500 which is 
supported and several other non supported cards, they all worked under
linux.
  
> The one I had in mind was the RealTek PCI NE2K chipset in the Kingston
> KNE30s. When I tried this card and compiled in a static NIC driver the
> machine just hangs. When I try a module it hangs when I change video mode!

i used a PCI NE2K (from pine with a 8029 realtek chipset) up to the 2.1.132
kernel and it worked fine.
i also build it with 2.2.0-pre9 but haven't tested it, since i needed the
slot for an isdn card. i now use a old isa ne2k - it also works fine.

> Am I being dumb or is this just unsupported. Anybody else having any luck
> with PCINE2K?
> 
> Kit:  	SX164/533
> 	Millenium II
> 	ATAPI HDD+CDWRITE 

i also have a sx164, but i replaced my millenium 2 with a fire gl1000 pro,
but the millenium was still present when i used the realtek card.

Andreas

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                               Andreas S. Krebs

                CEC Karlsruhe, SAP AG, Andreas.Krebs@sap-ag.de
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