Hi,
I have a dual boot of Mandrake 9.0 and XP and am trying to detect/configure my ethernet card (INTEL PRO 100 VE).

1) If something is listed in my /proc/pci, does it mean that it has been detected ? (I was reading somewhere that to be detected, the device drivers should know the address of the device and the device should be assigned that address physically)

2) I noticed that my /proc/pci file has a listing for the above controller. However, there is no IRQ listed there. Why is that ? I can always find that from Windows, of course.

3) Lastly, if I look at the modules file, it has a line "alias eth0 off". What should this line look like after I have downloaded the drivers ?

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Sanjiv

i was checking the mandrake site's hardware compatibility list and the card doesn't appear, hmmm... in fact the only intel network adapter that appeared was listed as "not supported"... not very encouraging, i know...

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/hardware.php3


but here's the DIRECT link to the card's intel driver for linux:

http://www.intel.com/support/network...linux/e100.htm