[64studio-devel] Kernel doesn't support my ethernet card??

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi,

|--==> Brian King writes:

  BK> I installed 64studio 2.0 and it said it couldn't find my ethernet 
  BK> card....I proceeded with the install and it installed ok except no 
  BK> ethernet for internet :-(

  BK> I have a Ethernet controller: SysKonnect SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 
  BK> 1000Base-ZX Adapter, PCI64, Fiber ZX/SC (rev 10)

  BK> I've had to drop back to the 2.6.19-1-multimedia-486 kernel which has 
  BK> support for the above adaptor although when I installed 64studio 1.4 
  BK> which used this kernel it too told me it didn't have support for it but 
  BK> it worked.

  BK> Not sure why the kernel has dropped support for this ethernet controller 
  BK> but hope it'll get back in there in the next kernel release....

  BK> Which leads me to ask, is this something the 64studio team has done or 
  BK> is it something the kernel development team have done??

A new kernel (2.6.22) is in the testing branch, please would you give
it a try and see if the problem is still there?

Ciao!

Free