Getting ethernet working on ASUS P4P800-VM board [SOLVED]

From: debian (debian_at_psyctc.org)
Date: 03/31/05

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    I thought I'd posted this here for reference and future googling by
    others with this problem but clearly I forgot. There are other posts
    about sound, SATA and other things with the board but not, that I can
    see about this particular problem. I was trying to install Woody onto
    this new machine and couldn't get the ethernet working. Solution was
    relatively painless and GPL I think so here it is.

    The ethernet adapter built into the motherboard is an Intell 82562EZ
    according to the manual. Intel had the driver under the GPL: search
    for 82562 and linux on the support page:
    http://support.intel.com/support/index.htm?iid=HPAGE+header_support&

    That gets you e100-2.1.15.tar.gz which you download (I love wget!),
    gunzip and tar -xvf and then you need to install the
    kernel-headers to match whatever kernel you're running (uname -a will
    tell you). In my case kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4. You run the make
    exactly as the instructions you untarred for e100 said. I don't think
    I to move anything to a new destination and all I had to do then was
    to modprobe e100 and bingo. Works fine.

    Of course, I had to put another ethernet card in to do this but a
    simple old card was enough.

    I do think there's a severe problem for Debian (and perhaps Linux more
    generally now) that we don't have good hardware compatibility lists
    or easy sources of downloadable floppy disc images of drivers we might
    need to complement the basic Woody CD install. All the new hardware
    I've tried to install Debian Woody on recently has posed at least one
    problem and they're not all documented on Debian-user or elsewhere and
    one is still beating me. At the same time an increasing proportion of
    the traffic here seems to be about hardware incompatibilities (sound,
    SATA, video/TV are common ones). Is there any chance that something like
    the popularity contest package could become an installation option in
    Sarge and relay back as much information as the installer (or anything
    else) could glean about hardware to some central repository where we
    could look up our hardware or hardware we might be thinking of buying.
     There might be an option to make yourself contactable either via an
    anonymous relayer, or directly, if you opted in to this collection of
    information about your hardware.

    I for one would opt in and would put in some money (not much but let's
    say the price of at least one M$ piece of trouble!) to fund
    development since I'm a useless programmer and can't contribute in
    other ways!

    Best wishes all,

    Chris 

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