Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-25 Thread Brandon Beretta
Hello Aaron, On Sunday, October 24, 1999, you wrote: AVC> Hi all - AVC> I'm doing some superhero work here, rescuing fellow students from the AVC> Gates of hell and introducing them to sweet, brand GNU, true freedom. AVC> Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-24 Thread aphro
easy .. get a new NIC :) $20 for a ISA NE2K PnP NIC or $25 for a PCI RT8139 nic .. check nasa's site for updated drivers and other ne2k stuff. i forgot the link off hand if u need it search for nasa on yahoo.aphroland.org nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
For what it's worth, I have been using a PCI NIC with a Winbond chip for a few years with the driver compiled into my kernel (both the ne2k-pci and before that was available the ISA ne2000 driver). As I recall, it was recognized without problems by the installation kernel (bo, I think), which load

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 12:51:49AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Hi all - > Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(. > > It has a winbond chip in it, and it's supposed to be 'ne2k compatible,' > but the ne2k-pci module won't load. I get some of the more c