Hi all,

As already posted 1 week ago, I have problems with the Marvell Yukon 88E8036
PCI-E Ethernet card of my Toshiba Satellite A80/131 laptop. Briefly, the
story is this: I installed SL 4.0, which was unable to recognize the card. I
got the suggestion to download the driver from the manufacturer's site. It
had a "install.sh" script which succeeded to run (after some reinstalling,
of course, because at the very beginning some kernel source files were
missing). What I understood is this: it installed the driver, and then it
recompiled the kernel loading the module in it. So I was happy to have the
laptop connected to the Internet.

One of the first things I decided to do was to check (using yum) for
eventual updates of the SL. It found some, including a new kernel version.
Yum did everything, including the new kernel installation. Then I rebooted
the laptop to use the new kernel. At the starting point, it warned me that
the Ethernet card was removed from the kernel. From that point I was
completely unable to reinstall it. I even tried to install back SL 4.0 (to
repeat what I did at the beginning) but I don't succed anymore :( .

I should mention that I am not so expert in "kerneling, recompiling" and
stuff like this.

My question is: may I hope that the new SL 4.1 have a kernel which knows
more about my Ethernet card? Or everything is still hopeless?

Thanks,

Lucian Stroe.