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I added an old D-Link DFE-530 TX 10/100 card to the system which I know is working with the Via Rhine driver - and magically eth0 appeared for it. So in general networking seems to be okay on the system. I tried the e1000 driver in the kernel (which is one major version number smaller than the one Intel provides) but it did not help. So I got back to the module (because it seems to be much newer). The documentation says it is aware of multi port cards and googling I found someone having 4 (!) of the this cards working in his firewall (makes 8 port total). Does anyone see a possiblity to compile the driver supplied by Intel into the kernel? In my opinion this is a hotplug/udev issue, so this might help and the supplied driver is just too old for the nic. What about copying the source code of the driver over the e1000 source code in the kernel? The files have the same name but in my e1000 driver there are threee addional file name kcompat.c, kcompat.h and kcompat_ethtool.c. With a look at both Makefiles I guess I have to add kcompat.o to the kernel ones. Thanks so far for any help! Best regards, - Ricky Blankenaufulland -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
