Hi! I am a brand new Mandrake user and appreciate very much the initiative of a list supporting dummies like me! I have a Network card (PCI) provided by Road Runner, an american cable services provider. They do not support Linux users. I feel like I am close to the goal of making this card work, but it still doesn't. OK, I stop chatting, here are the details: *My card has been detected at boot time. It said it was a "Davicom ethernet 100/10 Mbit DM9102". I used the configure option. It added -as one could expect- the line "alias eth0 dmfe" in conf.modules. I know it is the right driver as it was the one which was provided with the card. *There is no IRQ conflict. *The card is detected by the BIOS at boot time, before loading Linux. It gives the right device ID and IRQ. *In the KDE Control Center, section PCI, I can also read the card specifications with the right device ID, IRQ and io address. BUT LINUX STILL DOESN'T DETECT IT AT BOOT TIME, AND THE DRIVER IS NOT LOADED. Hence I cannot read any "eht0..." line when I use "dmesg". I receive no error message or "FAILED". *If I do "lsmod", my module (dmfe) does not appear. *In the IO section of KDE Control Center, "eth0" does not appear. *Then if I do "insmod dmfe" or "modprobe dmfe", things are better as I can see "dmfe (unused)" in "lsmod" and "eth0" in the IO section. But "eth0" does not appear in the IRQ section of te KDE Control Center. I guess I gave all the details I could.I've read about a 100 times the Ethernet Howto. I learned a lot and went further thanks to it but it is not able to help me any more. I've spent almost two weeks on that problem and still don't want to give up! But it is hard as without the Internet, I cannot reach the computer autarky!!! Still have to use the University computers, running Windows 95... I thank very very much the Linux guru who will help me! See you! Nicolas
