[eepro100] Re: problem getting eepro100 driver to work

Andrey Savochkin saw@saw.sw.com.sg
Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:23:19 +0800


On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:11:07AM -0700, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> thanks to those who responded to my inquiry below.  The problem was that 
> the motherboard in this system uses Intel's latest network chip (82562), 
> and the eepro100 driver doesn't recognize the response from this chip 
> during initialization.  It's possible to modify the driver to get it to 
> recognize the chip, but the simplest soln was for me to use the e100 driver 
> (written by Intel, and also bundled with RedHat 7.0) instead of the 
> eepro100 driver.

Both recent 2.2 and 2.4 kernel drivers support this chip.

Best regards
					Andrey V.
					Savochkin