Bug 5858

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