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Re: Configuring Network Card



On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:37:56PM +0000, jayson keidel wrote:
| Hullo:
| I'm new to Debian and just installed it. After fighting through the steps of 
| setting up the video card, Xserver, and mouse, i discovered that the network 
| card was not initialized. I have an old D-link ethernet card, and it appears 
| not to have a driver. Is there a way (short of re-installing) to install 
| this driver?

Yes, but I'll have to know what the card is to know which driver to
use.  Add the line

    alias eth0 <driver>

to /etc/modutils/local_config (create the file if it doesn't already
exist) and run 'update-modules'.  Replace "<driver>" with the name of
the actual driver.  The following is a list of some of D-Link's cards
and the corresponding driver name :

    DE-530TX    tulip
    DFE-530TX   via-rhine
    DFE-530TX+  rtl8139

I know they also make an ISE NE2000 clone card which would use the
'ne' driver, but I don't know the model number.

HTH,
-D



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