[PLUG] Driver problem

Robbert van Andel robbert at vafam.com
Wed Mar 19 19:12:01 UTC 2003


It's a broadcom ethernet on board my ASUS P4PE board.


It also has an onboard sound card that doesn't work.  Linux finds it but
no sound comes out.  I tried installing ALSA but the instruction were
not complete and it didn't work.

Robbert

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 21:59, Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 18:54, Robbert van Andel wrote:
> > I have an on board ethernet card that I've had to install the driver for
> > seperate from the install (in other words, linux doesn't recognize the
> > device).  This is on RedHat 8.  Everytime I upgrade the Kernel via
> > up2date, I have to reinstall the driver.  What do I need to do that will
> > allow me to update the kernel without having to continually reinstall
> > the driver?
> 
> Hm, if it's not supported by the kernel, there's probably nothing you
> can do, except turn off modversions and compile your module w/o
> modversions.  That /might/ work.  What kind of NIC is it that's not
> supported?  Those are pretty rare these days.
> 
> Wil
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