[lug] Gigabit NIC Compatibility

[Lee Woodworth]

George Sexton wrote:
> I've got a machine running OpenSUSE 11.2 with all the latest kernel patches.
> The ASUS motherboard has two onboard MCP55 NIC's. I never could get them to
> work. The driver would load OK, but I can't ping out. I ended up putting in
> an Intel 10/100 NIC and using it. Now, for various reasons, I'd like to get
> it working.

I've seen a driver load ok but not see/register the hardware. The atl1c driver
on my laptop sees the hardware every other boot or so. No idea why. You can see
if your device is present using 'ip link show'.