Its kinda weird having to download a driver before you can get the network going. how exactly is this to be acheived.. Oh wait - perhaps theres a winmodem? or maybe nvidia force you to have a floppy drive on the box (yuck, how last millenium)
I worked around this by putting in an extra network card (rtl8139), using that to download the drivers and then took the other network card out again... After that I spent many hours trying to get my ATI video card and my nforce motherboard and my kernel to play nicely together... But it's all good now. Actually the most annoying thing about recompiling the kernel multiple times to get it right was that the 2.4.22 make menuconfig didn't have the ehci-hcd option available under the USB section, so I had to manually enable it in the .config.
Does anyone know why it doesn't appear? I'm running Debian, so it is the kernel source downloaded via apt.
_________________________________________________________________
Surf the net and talk on the phone with Xtra Jetstream @ http://www.xtra.co.nz/products/0,,5803,00.html !
