Currently no distro I tried supports this card out of box (Mandrake 10.1, 10.2, Ubuntu 5.10 - ie. kernel 2.6.12) This card is integrated on my Abit NF7 S2 mainboard (for the record: not the "NF7 S 2.0", that's different). (These MBs where shipped with 4 kinds of ethernet: IP100A IP1000A, VIA 6122, VT6107). MB Spec: http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=NF7-S2&fMTYPE=Socket%20A&pPRODINFO=Specifications MB Manual: ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/manual/english/nf7_series.zip IP100A Driver: http://www.icplus.com.tw/html/driver-main-IP100A.html I managed to build and install it in both Mandrake 10.1 and 10.2 altough I'm an absolute amateur. Intersting is that the driver name, which I built from sources provided by the card vendor, is "sundance", exactly like one driver shipped with Mandrake. However, that sundance driver shipped with Mandrake doesn't work with my card for me. But maybe it could if tweaked somehow? After the instalation of driver provided by vendor the card is reported as: lspci | grep -i net 02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Sundance Technology Inc: Unknown device 0200 (rev 31) and works fine. See http://bugbox.blogspot.com/2005/04/abit-nf7-s2-board-ethernet-linux.html for similar experience. Maciek
Please talk to the driver authors and have them submit the code to LKML. This isn't a bug for the kernel developers to deal with. Also, I take it 2.6.15 did not work without any patches applied (you only indicate testing 2.6.12)? In any case, I think this bug can be rejected as invalid.
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