> I am running into a problem and i was wondering if you might help. I am
> installing Linux onto a Gatway 2000 133mhz pc. I am using an Intel
> Etherexpress Pro 100 B PCI network card, the only 2 cards in the machine
> are PCI (the video card and network card). I installed Slakware off of a
> cd-rom i had with no problems... i used the kernal image that supported
> networking and ide.
..
> I get this error SIOCSIFADDR : No such device
> I looked and found that i was getting "UNKNOWN PCI DEVICE" errors on
> bootup
Those are harmless messages. They mean only that the device name won't be
reported in /proc/pci.
> Linux version 1.2.13 (root@bigkitty) (gcc version 2.7.0) #1 Wed Aug 23
> 01:06:43 CDT 1995
Look at the date on your card...
This is a four year old kernel, released well before the EEPro100B was
available. The older driver releases support kernel 1.2.13, but the driver
wasn't released until kernel 1.3.70-something. Unless you have disk or
memory limitations you should get a modern distribution.
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html
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