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We just got a PC with an  Intel Pro 100 built onto the motherboard (as
opposed to being a PCI card). So whats the deal with these? Are they new?
Will drivers exist in RH7.1 to automatically edtect it upon boot nd
configure the network properly (with our inputting netmask IP etc etc)?

Thanks in advance.

You *have to* type in the netmask, gateway and so on. If you want to
determine this parameters automatically, you must have a DHCP server on
your network which give your box a proper netmask, gateway etc. any time
the network driver is started.

        Jan

If the intel pro uses a 62562 chip then you are in trouble because the only
driver that will
currently work is the e100 from Intel. The eepro100 driver in all kernels up
to 2.4.7 will
not work with this chip for very long. I know that the eepro100 developer is
dealing with this
and maybe has even release a driver that works with the chip but I don't
think it is in any
of the distributions yet. The e100 driver from Intel  works but is only
available as a loadable
module so the kernel can't (as far as I can tell) obtain its network
configuration from a bootp
or dhcp server at boot time. It can only do so after the kernel is finished
booting and the module
has been inserted using insmod. Then you can manually configure the ethernet
with IP addresses
etc.

Hope this helps....
Colin Bruce

Hi!,

Quote:> We just got a PC with an  Intel Pro 100 built onto the motherboard (as
> opposed to being a PCI card). So whats the deal with these? Are they new?
> Will drivers exist in RH7.1 to automatically edtect it upon boot nd
> configure the network properly (with our inputting netmask IP etc etc)?

See ya

Dean Thompson

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Quote:> Will drivers exist in RH7.1 to automatically edtect it upon boot nd
> configure the network properly (with our inputting netmask IP etc etc)?

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absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation."  - Something Awful, 1/11/2001

If the chip is an 8255x series (e.g. 82557, 82558 etc) then the eepro100 driver
supplied
with the kernel will work just fine but if it is an 82562 then :-(

best wishes....

        Jan

01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset
Ethernet (rev 01)         Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3014
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-         Latency: 66
(2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08         Interrupt: pin A
routed to IRQ 9         Region 0: Memory at f4100000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable) [size=4K]         Region 1: I/O ports at 3400 [size=64]  
      Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2                 Flags:
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