A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I just installed Debian (slink) on a friend's system. His Ethernet card > is a D-Link 220. I read the Ethernet-HOWTO to check the card's compatibility, > and there has apparently been some success getting D-Link 200 cards to work, > using the ne driver. I've made a kernel (2.0.36) with the ne support > built-in, and another try with it as a module. However, neither seems to work; > I get a "device or resource busy" error if I try to modprobe ne.o.
>From what I've heard the DLink 220 is a NE2K clone (ie uses the ne driver). However, the ne driver isn't PnP, and you need to know the IO port and IRQ that the ethernet card is configured for. > Has anyone gotten this card to work in Linux? Is there a chance it'd work in > a 2.2.x kernel? (I'd really like to not have to do that, though, as getting > a new kernel-source package installed on his computer, without having the > Ethernet card available to *download* the package, could be quite a pain. > However, if I must make him a 2.2.x kernel, I'd appreciate some tips on how > I can build a kernel locally without hosing my computer, and then transferring > it over to his. I'd hate to have to use RedHat.) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein