topic Re: LINUX NIC DRIVER FOR COMPAQ EVO 510 ON BOARD NIC in Operating System - Linux

LINUX NIC DRIVER FOR COMPAQ EVO 510 ON BOARD NIC

Steve_362 — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:39:32 GMT

My dilema is finding a nic driver that works for linux Slackware 8.0 on a Compaq EVO 510. It has an integrated Intel Pro/100 VM Network Connection adapter. I have unsuccessfully loaded the driver on HP's site (e100-2.3.27.tar.gz) with a 2.4.5 kernel. Is this the correct driver, or is there another. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Steve Aldrich

Re: LINUX NIC DRIVER FOR COMPAQ EVO 510 ON BOARD NIC

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:56:54 GMT

If that device is working correctly, Linux should pick it up automatically and use a generic driver.

I would suggest a search of Intel's website based on the part number would be more fruitful.

http://www.intel.com

The device should ship with a utility cd which you can boot off of an run a quick hardware check.

SEP

Re: LINUX NIC DRIVER FOR COMPAQ EVO 510 ON BOARD NIC

Bruce Copeland — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:08:39 GMT

I can't believe your NIC wouldn't work with the standard eepro driver. Kernel 2.4.5 is quite old for this type of hardware. Is it possible that you're experiencing a kernel problem instead of a NIC driver problem?

Bruce

Re: LINUX NIC DRIVER FOR COMPAQ EVO 510 ON BOARD NIC

Stuart Browne — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:47:22 GMT

I remebmer with this class of machine, on RH machines that the install routine would pick up two devices using the kernel's eepro driver.

Whilst initilising both, neither would work. Go figure.

Make sure that it didn't do that to you under Slackware. I'm not sure how it lays things out these days (haven't used slackware since v3) so I can't be much more help than that.