[KLUG Members] Compaq Armada 4100 integrated ethernet??

[Bruce Smith]

> I have an old compaq Armada 4131T laptop that I have had around for ages.  I
> finally picked up a convenience base off of ebay not too long ago but thus far
> I have not been able to figure out what driver - if any - will work with the
> ethernet device in it.  It identifies itself as "Compaq Armada integraded
> ethernet control" from what I can see on the win9x drivers. (The newest drivers
> on the compaq site relate to win95 and NT 4.0.)
>
> I went through the linux-on-laptop resources on the net and although there are
> a lot of listings for 4100 series armadas, most of the folks are either not
> specifying anything for networking or are using an external network card of
> some sort.

Send some of them email and ask.

> My hope was to use this box as my NAT box right after the cable modem using my
> linksys 10/100 pcmcia card (which works fine already) for the internal network
> and the integrated (10 only) controller to talk to the cable modem.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what linux driver(s) to try
> using with the integrated controller on this old beast?

Have you installed Linux?  Which distribution?  Most modern
distributions should auto detect the NIC.

If not, take a look at /proc/pci and/or the "lspci" command.

If all fails, do some "trial & error" and start modprobing all the
network modules until one takes.  (look at the logs between probes)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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