Re: Help with VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX with two onboard ethernet ports

[Peter Samek <samek@upc.uniba.sk>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:57:55PM +0100, Chris Evans wrote:
> Ho hum, do hope I haven't got myself ahead of Debian hardware 
> compatibility.
> 
[...]
> However, when I get to the installation of network drivers in the 
> Debian installation sequence, I select the via-rhine drivers and 
> offer no parameters and get:
> 
> "/lib/modules/2.2.20-compact/net/via-rhine.0: init_module: Device or 
> resource busy"
> ... and the rest of the failure notice.
> 
> Has anyone succeeded in installing the network drivers on this 
> motherboard?  It's moderately crippling to me at the moment as the 
> machine (silly me) hasn't got a CDROM as I've never had problems with 
> the floppy and network installation route in the past.
> 

Hi.

I have an EPIA mini-ITX CL6000E and had no problems with network
modules. But I must note that the kernel used was from 2.4 series and I
also connected already installed HDD.

Hope it helps.

Peter

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