Re: adding NIC

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Rory OConnor said:
> this is a very basi newbie question -
>
> I popped in a second NIC (cheap - linksys NC100) for some internal
> networking purposes.  How can I find out if this card is supported?
>  and  if it is, Do I need to re-compile the kernel to add support
> for it on my  machine?

need to find what kind of chip is on the card. from my quick
search it seems to use the tulip driver. but you quite
possibly have to compile a new version of the driver to get
it working. a good place to start may be here:
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html

if you have to compile a new module, its my opionion that its
just easier to compile a new kernel :)

if you have the tulip driver installed you can try to load
it by doing: modprobe tulip and see if it loads and detects
the card..if so great..if not see the above about updating
the driver. assuming the NC100 uses tulip you may want to
run more searches to confirm that.

nate