* Jacob Tennant (k8jwt@adelphia.net) [030808 22:57]:
> Looked the card and it is a ADMtek AN983B chip and from ADMtek website I got
> a Unix driver called fastnic.pkg.
>
> It saves to install this way:
> Log in as root
> cd /tmp
> doscp a:/unixware/fastnic.pkg /tmp
> pkgadd -d /tmp/fastnic.pkg
> Run netcfg, add the desired chain, the driver will be called "fastnic".
> Q to quit netcfg.
>
> Is this able to be done under debian?
No, those look like instructions for unixware. In Linux, you'll just
want to load the 'tulip' module to drive this card. In Debian, this
means running 'modconf' and selecting it from the list
(kernel/drivers/net/tulip).
good times,
Vineet
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