Debian & Intel 82562ET Ethernet Controller

[Mark Paine]

Just got a new PC, which uses a Gigabyte GA-8IEX motherboard with an 
onboard Intel Ethernet controller (82562ET).  In the process of 
installing Debian Woody onto it (with the bf24 kernel image), and it 
does not appear to recognise the controller.  Did a little bit of 
research before hand, and my understanding was that the eepro100 module 
would work with it.  Doing a modconf and selecting that module, it 
returns an error which basically says that it can't find the controller.

Doing a lspci shows the controller there although it is unrecognised ie 
no text description saying in detail what it actually is.  Doing a 
search on the kernel source, and the controller is mentioned in the 
pci_ids.h include file (on a 2.4.19 kernel source tree).  What makes it 
even stranger is hopping over to Intel to see about their Linux drivers, 
and the readme for their Pro/100 family of adapters does not even 
mention this chip. However, going via a different path on their site you 
end up with the e100 driver....

So, is this chip supported? If so which driver works with it (yeah I 
know I could download the Intel driver, but I'm being a bit lazy at the 
moment and I thought that the standard linux driver would have supported 
it?  Or is it a case, that the chip is so new (which I don't think it 
is), that a more recent kernel than 2.4.18 is required?

Mark P.
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