Linksys EG1032 Gigabit NIC (ver 3)

(a linux noob) I am trying to install a Linksys EG1032 Gigabit NIC card on
my system. I have heard that ver3 has had problems installing because it
thinks that the chipset is older (i believe now it is using a realtec
chipset). Has this been reported and will it be fixed in a new update? The
code for the ver3 chipset is on the cd but I don't know what to do with it
(nor willing to learn, read rant below)

RANT Also, I am not a programmer, just a normal guy. I love the idea behind
linux but it feels like everywhere I turn everyone insists that you learn
to program. When will linux become mainstream and realize that not everyone
is a programmer? I had suse 9.3 since it came out and never once opened the
terminal thing. I'm just an average user that believes in choice. /END RANT

> (a linux noob) I am trying to install a Linksys EG1032 Gigabit NIC card on
> my system. I have heard that ver3 has had problems installing because it
> thinks that the chipset is older (i believe now it is using a realtec
> chipset). Has this been reported and will it be fixed in a new update? The
> code for the ver3 chipset is on the cd but I don't know what to do with it
> (nor willing to learn, read rant below)
>
> RANT Also, I am not a programmer, just a normal guy. I love the idea behind
> linux but it feels like everywhere I turn everyone insists that you learn
> to program. When will linux become mainstream and realize that not everyone
> is a programmer? I had suse 9.3 since it came out and never once opened the
> terminal thing. I'm just an average user that believes in choice. /END RANT

Apparently from this http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5108 it
seems that this IS a known bug. The problem is that I have opensuse 10.0
and it is still using the sk98lin driver and I have no way of managing that
change.

> > (a linux noob) I am trying to install a Linksys EG1032 Gigabit NIC card on
> > my system. I have heard that ver3 has had problems installing because it
> > thinks that the chipset is older (i believe now it is using a realtec
> > chipset). Has this been reported and will it be fixed in a new update? The
> > code for the ver3 chipset is on the cd but I don't know what to do with it
> > (nor willing to learn, read rant below)
> >
> > RANT Also, I am not a programmer, just a normal guy. I love the idea behind
> > linux but it feels like everywhere I turn everyone insists that you learn
> > to program. When will linux become mainstream and realize that not everyone
> > is a programmer? I had suse 9.3 since it came out and never once opened the
> > terminal thing. I'm just an average user that believes in choice. /END RANT
>
> Apparently from this http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5108 it
> seems that this IS a known bug. The problem is that I have opensuse 10.0
> and it is still using the sk98lin driver and I have no way of managing that
> change.


Ok... well I answered my own question! The link I posted shows that this is
a fix in Kernel version 2.6.14, but according to distrowatch, I have
2.6.13.... So.... ignore me... no more rants :-p