I just installed Debian (slink) on a friend's system. His Ethernet card is a D-Link 220. I read the Ethernet-HOWTO to check the card's compatibility, and there has apparently been some success getting D-Link 200 cards to work, using the ne driver. I've made a kernel (2.0.36) with the ne support built-in, and another try with it as a module. However, neither seems to work; I get a "device or resource busy" error if I try to modprobe ne.o.
Has anyone gotten this card to work in Linux? Is there a chance it'd work in a 2.2.x kernel? (I'd really like to not have to do that, though, as getting a new kernel-source package installed on his computer, without having the Ethernet card available to *download* the package, could be quite a pain. However, if I must make him a 2.2.x kernel, I'd appreciate some tips on how I can build a kernel locally without hosing my computer, and then transferring it over to his. I'd hate to have to use RedHat.) Thanks a lot, Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato): 2 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect.
