Hi,

I have had a problem with trying to get a Intel Pro 100/VE network card working under mandrake 10.1.
I have had suse 9.2 working fine on the PC, and am hoping that i can copy all the settings for eth0 from suse over to mandrake (Mandrake has all the packages that i want - apache, php etc that arent on the Suse CD).

What do i need to do ?

I have downloaded the latest driver for the pro 100/ve from intel, and installed it, but the card still wont work properly. I can't ping it, but can see its mac address in on my switch in connected devices page, but doesnt show PC name (netbios name) or ip address.
If i let mandrake do the install, it will only let me choose the eepro100 driver, wont let me manually choose e100 in harddrak, it does a probe and keeps on wanting the eepro100 driver. If i do a manual configure it asks me all the settings like debug address which i have no idea what to set them to.

How about just changing the network card. They don't cost a lot these days.

I cant change network card as its a SFF pc, with on board NIC and no PCI slots..

I have actually changed to CentOS now, which detected the card and works fine..

I just dont get why linux is such a pain with things like this, and why from version to version things change/stop working for no reason..

I like linux (have been using mandrake for about 5 years for mail/web servers), but things like this just do my head in, even just installing apache/php from RPM's for suse is a real head f**k and i gave up after 4 hours and not getting it to work. !!!!!!

Complain to the hardware vendors because they are the ones who don;t provide drivers so kernel devs and distro maintainers have to try and reverse engineer them.

Why would i complain to the hardware vendor. Intel has drivers for download, and the network card works with Suse and CentOS, using the e100 driver supplied by intel.

So to me it would be a problem with Mandrake, not the driver.

So use a distro that works with your hardware.