On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Ross Drummond <[email protected]> wrote:
> I purchased one of these multi-port networks cards off Nicegear;

The description reads more like its a switch rather than a multi-port
card. I'm not sure how these would show up, but it doesn't immediately
sound like you'd see 5 interfaces; possibly one "internal" interface.
Think of things like the WRT54GL ... Have you tried plugging external
devices into the ports while powered up and seeing of they can talk to
each other?

> My expectation was that each of the the five ports would have a MAC address
> and be assigned an individual eth interface.

In the first instance, I would check that expectation with Hads @ Nicegear :-)

> PS There is driver source code supplied on a CD. When compiling it bombs out
> after not finding what it is looking for in the kernel source. The date on the
> source files are from 2005 so I assume that the manufacturer no longer
> maintains the source code for this product.

Well it's probably source for a specific kernel version. Sounds like
it has shown up fine in your existing kernel, so you don't need the
manufacturer's sources.

What's the relevant output from dmesg, lshw, ifconfig and anything
else you can think of? :-)

-jim

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