How do, On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 19:10 +0100, Greg Frith wrote: > Thanks for your comments Norm. Unfortunately (for me) i think there > may be a lot of sense in what you say. I did however get the wireless > cad working in the end, after compiling ndiswrapper and then using > this to load a Win32 driver. There was i thinking that any old box > would be able to cope with an ethernet card. BTW, the card is > identified correctly in an 'lspci', and modprobe gives no errors when > loading the r8169 driver. Also, keep in mind, the majority of RealTek nics are the nic equivalent of a win modem :-( Try replacing with an Intel or 3Com & see if that makes a difference. > -- > Greg Frith > gfrith@xxxxxxxxx taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
