Re: NIC and LAN setup
On Sunday 02 December 2001 01:36 pm, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am Debian newbie. I have a LAN that was running and is now in need of
> reconstruction. On the LAN were two Linux boxes and two Macs. The Linux
> box that provided internet access via ppp has a Netgear fa311 NIC. This
> card is not supported by potato. I have obtained another NIC, a Linksys
> LNE100TX, which uses a DEC tulip chip and should be useable with potato.
> I would like to do just what is needed to configure the potato machine
> for this card and for LAN networking. I would like to avoid simply
> running through the complete install process for just this one change
> (and the consequent configuring of a network interface). How can I do
> this?
>
> Paul
get hold of the kernel source and compile and install a new kernel with
appropriate support.
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