casimir

I know that a someone has posted there sound based problem with there A7N8X Deluxe, but I am having problem with the -E version; My gigabit (and the 10/100 port) are not working. When I looked at ifconfig, I only saw the "lo" device. I have looked around for info/drivers and have only come up with a kernel patch for the 2.4.23 or 2.6.0 (my slackware install ses the 2.4.22 kernel). As I was writing this I did some more research on the 2.6 kernel and found out that it has capabilities to use the marvell LAN driver as a kernel patch (I think). I don't know much about this so it is all confusing. How can I get my gigabit working? I am going to try to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.3 and see if it works then. I can't find a driver(or kernel patch, or what ever it is) for the 2.6.3 kernel. Will I have to use the 2.6.0 (or 2.4.23 because they have a driver for it) kernel to use my gigabit? Thank you for the help.

thank you for the advice danleff. I have not totally solved the problem, but I am on my way to doing so. I put in a pci NIC so I could d/l the nvidia drivers. And it wouldn't work. It says it was timing out trying to get a dhcp reply. So I gave it the command "dhcpcd" and it worked. maybe dhcpcd has a longet timeout time?? I will post the results on monday. Hopefully by then I am gigabit enabled. THanks