Debian dissapointment 4583

staggered into the Black Sun and said:

lspci *is* the way to find complete information about everything that's on the PCI bus.

You may need a newer kernel, as well. 2.6 is the stable series now, and there are a number of NIC modules that haven't been backported to the official 2.4 series. The Via Velocity GigE NIC is not supported in vanilla 2.4, although you can download a source tarball from Via's website and get it working there.

The EEPro100 has been supported for a long time. "Linksys" isn't really mentioned anywhere in the GigE menu for the 2.6.10 kernel, which is annoying. Shoot... lspci -n ? If you do get yourself a new kernel, you may want 2.6.12 or 2.6.13. What's such a new NIC doing in such an old machine, anyway?

irrelevant modules and dmesg lines snipped

Wonderful! This shouldn't cause many problems.

Old machine, eh?

Right. Well, you may want to use lspci -n to find out the exact PCI ID of the mystery Linksys card. Then you can grep -r for that ID inusr-src-linux-2.6.1?and probably find out which module you need to compile.

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