Onboard NIC problem

I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC with an on board NIC. The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda and Debian on /dev/sdb Debian found the onboard Scsi Controller but not the NIC or 2nd CPU the 2nd CPU isn't

Re: Onboard NIC problem

Matt Grant wrote: I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC with an on board NIC. The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda and Debian on /dev/sdb Debian found the onboard Scsi Controller but not the NIC or 2nd

Re: Onboard NIC problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I have Debian Potato 2.2 with Gnome running on this PC with an on board NIC. The motherboard is a PR440BX with 2 Ppro CPU's w/256 MB RAM and 2 scsi drive's I have win 2000 on /dev/sda and

Re: Onboard NIC problem

Hi Matt, try the EtherExpress100 driver. You can compile this code directly into the kernel or load it as a module. The module name is eepro100.o. If you NIC won't be found after that, specify the appropriate parameters for irq and io. You should have a diskette whith a little DOS-Program on it.

Re: Onboard NIC problem

Intel 8255x network cards are better known as Ether Express Pro, to get multiple processors you need to use a multiple processor kernel and if you think Linux flies on one processor watch it on 2!! On the bios on that motherboard you can have 32 irqs, which makes it much easier if you have oodles