Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

[Alexey Vyskubov <alexey@pepper.spb.ru>]

> No signs of nic when booting, insmod ne2k-pci.o gives me "unresolved
> symbols"-error, and ifconfig -yadayada gives me error to the effect
> that there's no hardware to configure.

I have no idea why kmod doesn't insmod your modules automagically.
But ne2k-pci depends on 8390 module; so try modprobe instead of insmod.

I have Realtec8029 NIC right now in my computer; and ne2k-pci is compiled as a
module. I've never had any problems with this NIC.

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