[Novalug] EeePC/F8 update

[Beartooth]

 	One of the respins that were passed out at the last 
VTLUUG installfest seemed for a while to have saved me; now I'm 
not so sure.

 	Some of you will recall that the ASUS EeePC's Xandros 
came with a vulnerability in its Samba, which I learned of at 
once here when I bought one.

 	Ever since then I've been grappling with one distro after 
another : EeeDora (first -- of course), Ubuntu 6 & 7, Debian in a 
couple forms, DSL, Puppy in a couple, and more besides. I got to 
a point where it looked like the only hope would be to compile a 
driver myself -- and compiling is something I steer strictly 
clear of.

 	Then I discovered that a very recent kernel now included 
F8 support for the driver(s) I needed. Sure enough, the kernel I 
had was a bunch earlier.

 	I pulled out one of the respins ; it finished the 
upgrade, but still fails to connect.

 	Service network restart gets as far as trying eth0, then 
reports failure : "3c501 device eth0 does not seem to be present 
..."

So is this still the driver problem? Or ...??

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User, with precious 
(very precious) little idea where up is.