Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

[Brandon Beretta <bberetta@lec.net.au>]

Hello Aaron,

On Sunday, October 24, 1999, you wrote:

AVC> Hi all -

AVC>   I'm doing some superhero work here, rescuing fellow students from the
AVC> Gates of hell and introducing them to sweet, brand GNU, true freedom.

AVC>   Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(.

AVC>   It has a winbond chip in it, and it's supposed to be 'ne2k compatible,'
AVC> but the ne2k-pci module won't load. I get some of the more common module
AVC> loading errors (device is busy... etc).

AVC>   My question is this: does anyone know what to do about not-quite ne2000
AVC> clones (PCI) that won't probe? the card's plug and play, and the kernel sees
AVC> it -- a cat of /proc/pci lists the NIC loud and clear, including IRQ and
AVC> base I/O address.

AVC>   Any help would be appreciated ;)

If the NIC is manufactured by Accton, try loading the RTL8139 module.

Good luck...


Best regards,
Brandon

mailto:bberetta@lec.net.au    Monday, October 25, 1999    10:26 AM (AEST)