Hello Abe,
Sorry, I missed something. The LAN driver below is actually "MCP
Nvidia", not the Realtek. It's the MAC chip that needs the driver, not
the PHY chip.
>Integrated LAN Card: MCP NVIDIA MAC + Realtek RTL8201BL PHY
In your case, you'll have to find out what your LAN card chipset really
is. It's possible it still could be using a realtek chipset, but as
mentioned in another email..try the lspci command out to be sure:
#lspci -v | grep -i ether
The lines you'll get will give some clue as to what your ethernet
controller(s) is. Hopefully it's something your mandriva installation
already supports.
It's true that using linux drivers that your kernel doesn't already have
isn't as straightforward as windows. As long as there are linux drivers
available though, you'll probably only go as far as compiling a kernel.
I mean that as a good thing, since it's not as complicated as it sounds.
There are a lot of step-by-step instructions for this. Trust me, it
could really be a lot more frustrating to get badly supported hardware
to work under linux.
-Paul Patrick Carpio Prantilla
Abraham Mandac wrote:
Thanks, Paul.
I've tried installing all the drivers on Mandriva's configuration tool
with "Realtek" or "RTL" in their names. None worked, unfortunately.
You know of any other means I could install a driver downloaded from
somewhere? (There are no drivers available on realtek.com.tw.) But then
installing linux "drivers" is not as straightforward as installing
Windows device drivers, is it?
Paul Patrick Carpio Prantilla wrote:
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