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Title: Ethernet card AMD 79C970 "no driver"
Post by: Luke on July 15, 2000, 04:59:12 AM

E-smith does'nt show any driver for this main board ethernet port on my Compaq Deskpro 575.
What do I do?

Title: RE: Ethernet card AMD 79C970 "no driver"
Post by: stephen noble on July 15, 2000, 03:50:59 PM

do you know it has a linux driver
and what it is
then
pico /home/e-smith/configuration
down about 30 lines and edit
EthernetDriver1=pcnet32

where pcnet32 is my driver
all the drivers for red hat are there, just not all are listed

Title: RE: Ethernet card AMD 79C970 "no driver"
Post by: Alex Henriksen on July 16, 2000, 07:03:10 AM

Hi Luke..

You did not say what version of E-Smith you use..
I Version 4.0, pcnet32 is on the list, i have one..::-)

If not, just do like this..
Logon as root - Alt-F2.

AMD Netcard Support, E-Smith Version.

/sbin/e-smith/./config set EthernetDriver1 pcnet32
/sbin/e-smith/./signal-event console-save

Title: RE: Ethernet card AMD 79C970 "no driver"
Post by: Charlie Brady on July 18, 2000, 02:29:18 AM

stephen noble wrote:

> do you know it has a linux driver and what it is then pico
> /home/e-smith/configuration down about 30 lines and edit
> EthernetDriver1=pcnet32

Better yet, do:

/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 pcnet32

This is guananteed to work even if we change the format of the
configuration database.

As Alex commented in another post, the correct driver for the AMD79C970 (pcnet32) is a supported driver in e-smith 4.0.

Charlie