Re: VT6105 LAN on motherboard working with Debian stable 3.0r2
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 11:28 +0000, Chris Evans wrote:
> Motherboard is described at:
> http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_cl_spec.jsp?motherboardId=181
> says: chipset is - VIA CLE266 North Bridge and - VIA VT8235 South
> Bridge and: - VIA VT6105 LOM - VT6103 10/100 Base -T 10/100 Fast
> Ethernet Controller. CPU is detected as "Centaur VIA Nehemiah
> stepping 03"
>
> Installing the supplied rhine driver module at installation fails
> with an error message that I've not written down but it's clear it's
> not a compatible driver for the hardware.
Which module is that? via-rhine? It would help if you could "modprobe
via-rhine" and give the output of both modprobe and the relevant lines
from dmesg.
> I have dragged down the LAN driver on the VIA site:
> http://www.viavpsd.com/product/2/2/Audio_Driver_rev3.40b.zip
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure that this is a LAN driver?
> Has someone succeeded in compiling a working module I could just use
> or can someone talk me through more of the problems? Or point me
> elsewhere? Or suggest a more appropriate list or board on which to
> ask?
>From briefly searching the web, that seems to be a card that works, at
least under 2.4 kernels, using the via-rhine driver. This is a good
place for this question.
-Mark
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