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 -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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