Re: Ethernet Card Setup
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:08:02PM +1000, Nathan Goss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to Debian, and am having difficulty setting up my Network Card.
>
> I currently have a 3Com 3C905-TX PCI 10/100 network card.
>
> It is apparently supported in the kernel distributed with the current Potato
> release. I have read that it should be auto-detected.
>
> It doesn?t seem to be detected and set up in the Debian Install.
>
> How do I go about configuring it?
The driver is complied as a module, rather than into kernel... just run
insmod to install it:
insmod 3c59x
Note that you'll need to include it in /etc/modules to have it insmod'ed at
startup:
echo 3c59x >> /etc/modules
You can now configure it with ifconfig, or edit /etc/network/interfaces to
have it configured at boot-up. Read the ifconfig(8) and the interfaces(5)
man pages for details.
Checking out the Ethernet-HOWTO at linuxdoc.org would be a smart move also...
HTH,
Iain
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