If you can figure out what chip the NIC is based on, it's possible that
there's a driver already made for it that's distributed with the kernel.
It is generally said that if there's a driver in the kernel source,
you should use it instead of the manufacturer's driver (as the kernel
distributed ones are often more up to date and better maintained) unless
you have problems.
For most recent normal PCI NetGear cards, the "natsemi" module is the
driver ("modprobe natsemi" as root to see). Also try tulip, and of
course the venerable ne2k-pci (though if it's 100Mbit it won't be an
NE2000). /sbin/lspci might also yeild some additional information.
Unfortunately I think RH switched from 2.2.x to 2.4.x kernels in 7.0 to
7.1 (can someone confirm this?), therefore the driver is unlikely to
work as the module interfaces changed some. Also, if the module is
available in binary form only, you have about a snowball's chance in
hell of getting it to load on a different minor kernel version (though
sometimes you can load them up on different patchlevels). New kernels
also include taiting and GPL enforcement which might mean that an older
module may refuse to load on newer kernels due to GPL issues (of course
this is hackable if you're really into kernel hacking...).
--MonMotha
Dan George wrote:
Hi Gang
Have a problem installing driver for my netgear NIC on my Sony
Vaio Laptop. I installed 7.1 but no drivers available except for 7.0. Will
those work for 7.1 on my Laptop if I update it? How do I get those drivers
off the CD to the etc file that has all the drivers? Im just a basic user
(just took my first Linux class) but really would like to get this PCM card
rolling. What other card would you recommend that works with Linux? Also
have a copy of 7.2 that the Sony LPT wouldnt recognize on boot. The startup
disk I have for 7.0 wouldnt work for 7.2 but did work for 7.1, why?
Thanks
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Installing packages
The equivalent of Cooker in Red Hat is Rawhide, and no, up2date does only
official packages + updates.
Cooker or Rawhide will have difficulty installing onto the latest stable
release because often packages require MANY other updates. It is also
often
not a good idea to upgrade unless you really know what you are doing,
because many of those packages especially in Gnome2 or KDE3.1 are very
unstable.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Kanno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Luau Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Installing packages
Does it do the newest packages? (ie. equivalent to Mandrake cooker
packages)? Or is it better to stick with te packages only available on
up2date?
If you are installing official Red Hat packages up2date at the command
line
never fails. You need to be registered and entitled with RHN, but you
get
one free machine entitlement so that's usually okay.
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