If somebody could tell me the PCI Vendor and Device IDs of
the Natsemi card, i'll make sure that it is listed in
the nic_list file for the automatic detection that is
done by the LTSP kernels.

Thanks,

Jim McQuillan
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>Last time I needed it (for a netgear), the natsemi Linux
>>driver was a proprietary, closed source driver.  So, it
>>can't be compiled into the kernel and has to be loaded
>>explicitly.
>>
> 
> Must have been a while ago then. Donald Becker's natsemi.c has been in
> the kernel sources, one moment while I look at the sources, since 1999.
> And there are not one, but two, Etherboot drivers for this NIC
> controller.  Note that this is for the Natsemi DP8381x. Just because a
> NIC has a chip with the NS logo on it doesn't mean it is the DP8381x, it
> could be the AtLANtic or the good old 8390 (NE2000, WD8013).
> 
> As I was saying, if this really is the DP8381x and it's a PCI NIC, then
> it shouldn't be necessary to fill in option-129 since LTSP's PCI
> subsystem should detect it and load the module.
> 
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