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Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary



On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Kurt Raschke wrote:
> > Also, is there any kind of "extended drivers disk" that might have an rtl8139 driver, or an rtl8029 driver?  Are there any other drivers that I could get to work with either of these cards?
> 
> An open question to the list: with the default Debian kernel config, why are there 119 drivers in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net on i386, and just ten on PPC?  (Do that many of them not work?)
> 
> Another thing: is there an rtl8029 driver anywhere?  (Under development even?)  I just got two freebie cards and would like to make my StarMax a router. :-)

The RTL8029 is a PCI NE2000 clone. `modprobe ne2k-pci' should work.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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