On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 8:58 pm, Paolo Bonavoglia wrote:
> I don't know weather this is a newbie or expert question, so I send it to
> both lists.
>
>          I have installed Mandrake 9.0 in a partition of my PC. Everything
> went OK, but not for my ADSL Itex PCI card: Mandrake didn't recongnize it
> and I have a Linux PC which cannot connect to the Internet.
>          I have searched the Web, found some drivers but none worked; the
> last is an itex1577-2.4.16.o
> driver; I installed it, but when I try to activate it with the insmod
> commad, the computer crashes, even the mouse is frozen and I have to
> restart. Maybe it is a problem of kernel; this driver is for kernel 2.4.16,
> while Mandrake 9.0 has 2.4.19.
>
>          Does anyone know a working driver for this unfortunate ADSL card?
>          Obviously I mean a driver which works with Mandrake 9.0 and kernel
> 2.4.19.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Paolo Bonavoglia
Unfortunately that driver is a binary closed source driver, and the 
manufacturer Itex went out of business http://www.itexinc.com/

That is the trouble with closed source drivers. It is not possible to maintain 
them. From what I read the driver you have will work with RedHat 8.-0

derek

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