The drivers are not included in this (readhat)(and many other) distribution. Just to be clear - i'm talking about built-in ASUS P4-C800E LAN 10/100/1000 Adapter (which is 3c2000.o in Linux or 3c940 in Windows (R) ). The installation of the drivers is quite difficult task for a newbie... (I never thought that program should be compiled before run, or that it should be copied to the kernel directory). But the compatibility is exellent...

Excelent card, but you'll most likely have trouble that 3com/Asus provides on their respective websites. I've tested the drivers on multiple computers (with 2.4.xx and 2.6.x), and they always die with a compile error.



Here's the workaround:
Syskonnect makes an excelent driver (sk98lin) which works flawlessly with this card. So flawlessly, in fact, that the 3com/asus drivers seem to be a derivative of this driver, as most of the .c and .o files in the driver begin with sk. But thats beyond the point. Here are the steps:

1-If you're using the 2.4.XX kernel, i'd recommend updating, but you can obtain a source patch from syskonnect to add the driver to your source tree. 2.6 has it built in.


2-go to your source tree (/usr/src/linux), and type "make menuconfig".
If you don't have networking support or something like that, then you'll have to enable that and recompile the whole kernel. Otherwise, though, you can just make this one as a module. Go to device drivers -> networking support -> Ethernet (1000 mbit) -> Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support (modularize it).


3-exit and save your configuration

4-type "make modules"

5-"type "make modules_install"

6-type "modprobe sk98lin"

7-Use the net!



Any questions, email me. (fibbiATopentechsupportDOTnet)

-fibbi

A real pain to get setup in stock Mandrake distributions, as very painful to get running using Gentoo LiveCD.

As stated above, the NIC installed without a problem when the SysKonnect card support is built into the kernel (or installed as a module).

If you use the lin98k driver it works.... but I have a good old 3c905 in my computer. I think I don't need to say more....