"John" <they.need.your.spam@ready.verisign.com> wrote:
> I checked the "kernel-modules" package you mentioned, and it ALSO
> contains the e1000.o module (the one I particularly wanted), so
> apparently the problem is simply that Slack / Hotplug / whatever is not
> recognizing the NIC.

I'm 99% sure that I have seen hotplug successfully load the e1000.o
module with Slackware 9.1 on a machine with such a nic. Are you really
sure that you have such a nic? What does /proc/pci say?

regards Henrik
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