[ltp] problems with ethernet card

[Clayton]

Hi Claudio,

Please tell us what kernel (use 'uname') and ethernet card you are trying to use.

On my a21m 'lspci' says, in part:
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)

I use Debian Linux (testing) which sets up this audio card no problem after running /usr/sbin/alsaconf.

Debian also loads the e100 kernel module for the above ethernet card, which no longer works as of recent 2.6 kernels (I am running kernel 2.6.18). I have a number of cheap PCMCIA cards that do the job nicely while waiting for the kernel to get better.

Clayton

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:49:44 -0800
Claudio_Unige <claudiounige@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have found a cheap thinkpad a21m (2628-G1U) put 256 of ram and now 
> it's running great, unluckily I cant get the ethernet to work nor the 
> alsa sound card, I am running puppyu linux because the second user
> nedds to do some word processing and Ill be usin it for presentation,
> also I'd like to use it for presentation and with gcc to do simple
> programming with eclipse (to teach).
> 
> Can somebody tell me what is the best distribution that meets my
> needs?
> 
> I am pretty new to linux, therefore and acpi=off does not work for me 
> even putting hte 3c59x module. Also I tried opening up the bios and
> it shows that the internal mac address as non applicable?!?!?
> 
> Can somebody unpuzzle me?
> 
> Thanks, Claudio