debian nic drivers

[Chris Bier]

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Brian Densmore wrote:
| Well, I've run into a snag with debian and device drivers.
| My IBM NIC has apparently stopped functioning 100%. It still
| gets recognized ands the driver loads, but has itermittent
| functionality (mostly off). So I picked up a dlink (it is an
| 8139too). Unfortunately, the version of debian I loaded with
| Bonzai, and also stock debian, do not have the yenta_socket
| driver. For some reason the dlink (dfe690) only works if you
| have a yenta_socket driver. So I took the plunge and made the
| knoppix install work on my laptop, except now X doesn't work.
|
| Anyone running a debian version that has the yenta_socket
| driver?
|
| I suppose I could always return the dlink and try a
| different NIC, but 8139too should work. Even the 8139too drivers
| that don't work actually list my NIC as supported (I did a hex
| dump of the dirver). I suppose I could go through the the process of
doing a stock debian install with all 7 cds and then upgrade the kernel
| and modules. But somehow, I feel that is a rather major project.
| The way I see this is a bug in debian and not the driver, and
| "stable" shouldn't have bugs like this, pcmcia NICs need to work or
| you're dead in the water. To me this should be second in priority
| after fixing kernel bugs. I'm very disappointed. Debian was looking
| so robust.
|
| Well, just another day in the life,
| Brian

Brian,
~    Are you sure it's the NIC that's not working?  Have you changed
anything recently?  Did you try loading the yenta_socket driver?
~    I never use the stock kernel with any distro.  I always build my
own.  If it's a problem with the kernel driver, why on earth did you
reinstall the OS?

Chris
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