On 10/10/2007 04:17 AM, Michael Fischer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > >> He could possibly try to run update-pciids as root. That will update >> the list to the latest. >> > > Hmmm. So, if I update that file, then Yast should be able to offer it as > a network device to be configured? > Just try it. It only takes a few seconds for it to download the latest pciids file. If it only needs the pci id info, it may work. If not, you have the latest pciids file. That cannot hurt. It may or may not help. I would try it and just see. > But possibly I may need a kernel upgrade if one of the other drivers (e.g. > r8169) can handle it? > I assume you mean if one of the other drivers cannot handle it. If that is the case, you will soon find out. > I note that in hwinfo --netcard, my 3c905 has a hardware address, but the > Realtek does not. What does that tell me about things? > Do you mean a MAC address? If it does not have a MAC address, it means the card is probably bad. I have only seen that once before after a lightning strike near the server. Took out the cable modem and zeroed the MAC address of the card (but I guess though all zeros it still had something).
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