Re: configuration of network card

["Wilson Tuma" <wilson@fpvc.com>]

Hi Adr.

I am deeply sorry for the tone of my mail. Fact is I was getting frustrated
that I could not explain myself well to be understood. The fault was mine.

I am a neophyte to linux.  My system has just the basal files. Currenly ppp
is working and I can connect directly to the internet and download files.
What you could really do for me is.

1. Give me the packages I need to be download install on my computer to be
able to  compile the shell .
2. Outline the process I would need to recompile the shell adding support
for the new card.


Thanks a million

-----Original Message-----
From: John B. Fink <jbfink@adler.lib.muohio.edu>
To: Wilson Tuma <wilson@fpvc.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; recipient
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Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: configuration of network card


>
>
>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have asked this question b4 and did not get any satisfactory answer. So
I
>> will ask it in way that might make you people understand it better.
>>
>> I just bought a  Network Card  3com905B-TX.  This card model is not
listed
>> under modconf.  What can I do to make my linux system see and use this
card.
>
>Well, this one of "us people" would recompile the kernel to include
>support for the 3com 3c590/3c900 series of network cards -- I think
>they're called  "Vortex/Boomerang".
>
>We use 3c900 series ethernet setups here at the library where I work (not
>as cards though; they're usually right smack dab on the motherboard) and
>they work spiffy.
>
>-adr
>