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

[Brian King]

Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> 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
>
>   
No... 2.6.22 didn't work for me sorry :-(

What it needs is the sk98lin module which is in 2.6.19....can you get 
this module back in there??