[tlinux-users:08199] Re: Intel PRO/100 VE bad EEPROM checksum?
"Christopher R. Maden" <[email protected]>
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Mathieu Bérard wrote: > 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). Merci, Mathieu. I was hoping to get the network card working, and then do a net-upgrade to a more recent kernel, but I guess I will burn another DVD and reinstall before complaining to Toshiba. Thanks, Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, crism consulting XML-SGML-HTML-DTDs-schemas-XSL-DSSSL-conversion-training-ebooks-B2B <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA