Hey guys, this is a strange occurance for me, I've been using slak for years, and am having a slight problem this time around at work.. I installed Slackware 10 on a 1U box, and they have 2 onboard nics, two Intel Etherexpress NIC's. I'm using kernel 2.4.26, and i recompiled the kernel with support for Etherexpress 10\100 eepro is what it's formally called i believe. I am getting nothing coming up on the dmesg on bootup.... am i doing something off the wall here?! I've done this so many times but for 3com nics, now for some reason this is giving me problems... any ideas?

can you see them in the output of " #lspci " ?

egag

yes i sure can..... Let me know what yea suggest, wont be in the office again until tommorrow morning... thanks again..

Did you compile it into the kernel or as a module? If as a module, I'd try to compile it straight into the kernel, if applicable.

--Gian

That's what i tried the second time. FIrst time around i made it a module, and it didn't bring it up... second time, now i just compiled it right into the kernel....


I'm going to hit up kernel.org and get the source for it again and try from scratch. Hopefully this will go a lot better this time.

1) Try removing one and see if the system can see it
Add the second, if same problem occurs. Remove the first and keep the last one you added. One might be faulty.

2) Try swapping their locations on the mother board! or at least make sure they're properly mounted on the board itself.