[tlinux-users:08195] Re: Intel PRO/100 VE bad EEPROM checksum?

Christopher R. Maden a écrit :
>
> Yes; please see the history on this thread.
>
> The e100 and eepro drivers see the card, and it shows up in lspci. 
> However, the lspci shows all "ff" for the PCI data of everything on bus 7,
> and the e100 driver reports (correctly, AFAICT) a bad checksum.
>
> I can hack the driver to ignore the bad checksum; then it reports an
> invalid MAC address.  Hardcoding the MAC address causes ifup (via
> dhclient) to report that the network is down.
>
> Windows XP can use the card without any difficulty.
>
> ~Chris
>   
Hi.
The Satellite A105 is a relatively new hardware. You would
certainly benefit from running a kernel less ancient than
2.6.8
No hope of getting the card to work with this "all 'ff'"
stuff in lspci.
As a general advice, I am not sure Debian stable is well
suited for a recent laptop. You can try etch (which will have a
2.6.16), or a distribution with a shorter release cycle
(dapper has a 2.6.15, edgy will have a 2.6.17).

-- 
Mathieu
Mathieu