>Well, please ignore the vendor driver, it is crap (it is used as >"documentation" to write the proper driver i.e r8169). > >Also can you provide a dmesg output and what do you mean by "nic does >not work" ? > >Is it simply not detected or does it refuse to transfer any data? Adam and dwmw2 got it sorted out with a new kernel build in irc. thanks, jlc