thanx to all who responded to this thread. The problem I feel is now resolved and I will explain how I did it for documentation purposes.
the suggestion by Faheem, though I'm sure it works, I did not take it because I did not know enough about kernel recompilation to make it work, I kept running into walls. I keep running into issues about conflicting kernel versions when I try installing it. In addition, since I don't have internet access at this point, using apt-get (I'm pretty sure it's not on the cd, though I could be wrong) to get the package and then recompiling a whole bunch of stuff just isn't worth it. Frank had also responded to this thread (although I haven't quoted him here) offering the advice of using lspci to grab the ID of the ethernet card and then using bvi to hex edit the eepro100.o module file. Although this approach does require me to grab the bvi package, it doesn't require much effort after that. Since I was new to bvi, I will use the commands I used here bvi eepro100.o \3810 //ID in the adapter is 1038 but you need to flip it r // replace 3D // this is the ID of the card, 103D :w // save :q // quit Now with that all said and done, I simply am running into so many hardware issues due to the my new laptop. And so instead of using stable debian, I am going to test the sid version because I have read of success with it. Hope this helps other people Paul Quoting Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:12:05 -0400, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey peoples, > > I have been trying to get debian to work and have been very > > unsuccessful. I just got a Toshiba M35-s320 laptop and have been > > trying to install the network adapter with the 3.0r2 disk image. I did > > some research and I believe that imy network card, Intel PRO/100 VE is > > supported in the EEPRO100 driver but everytime I enable it it says > > insmod failed. I checked my bios and there is no PlugNPlay option so I > > don't think it's a bios conflict. Intel supplies a e100 driver but I, > > for the life of me cannot seem to be able to download it. Any ideas? > > You are aware that the e100 driver exists as a standalone module > source package in Debian, right? I would prefer using this one over > eepro100, since I have had some issues in the past with eepro100. > > I've had no problems compiling e100 as an external module with a > variety on kernels, using kernel-package. > > Also, eepro100 is in the kernel as of 2.4.20, so you could just use a > more recent kernel. > > *********************************************************************** > Package: openafs-modules-source > Priority: extra > Section: net > Installed-Size: 4464 > Maintainer: Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: all > Source: openafs > Version: 1.2.11-1 > Depends: bison, flex, debhelper, libpam0g-dev, libncurses5-dev, > kernel-package, e2fslibs-dev > Filename: pool/main/o/openafs/openafs-modules-source_1.2.11-1_all.deb > Size: 4489072 > MD5sum: b088707d130b502894a42a3e0f282d65 > Description: The AFS distributed filesystem- Module Sources > AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of > files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access > control, authentication, backup and administrative management. > . > This package provides source to the AFS kernel modules. > ************************************************************************ > > HTH. > Faheem. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
