Re: Support for D-Link 220 Ethernet cards?
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.)
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