RE: NIC identification
Assuming, of course, that he got the card up, which leads us back to his
original problem....
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
>eh, won't it show when typing ifconfig with one or more options ?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Casey Webster [mailto:casey@trifocus.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:26 PM
>To: John Griffiths
>Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: NIC identification
>
>
>often they will pe printed onto th card, or printed onto a sticker that is
>placed on the card or one of the chips on the card, it will be a in the
>form: 00:01:02:70:5E:B1 or possbile without the colons, but it will
>contain that many digits. The first 6 numbers (00:01:02) identify the
>vendor, and i this case thats 3com (3c905-c-txm)
>
>-Casey
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>On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote:
>
>> At 11:38 PM 1/16/2001 -0600, Casey Webster wrote:
>> >if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works
>> >for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the
>> >card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:yy and often on the
>card
>> >somewhere) then search google for a MAC address to vendor converter and
>> >pop on the xx:xx:xx from the mac addr and it will give you the vendor of
>> >the card and then you can check thier website for the model number and
>try
>> >and figure out what driver to use
>> >
>> >-Casey
>> well the things we learn..
>>
>> any ideas what the MAC might look like? where it may be?
>>
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