On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:10:14 -0500 Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> wrote: > At 10:44 PM 2/12/2004, Jacob S. wrote: > > >Older 3coms are probably the easiest to recognize and install, of all > >the network cards I've known. > > Ironic; with MS products I'm finding just the opposite i.e. older > stuff is deprecated. <snip> :-) Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux. Now you know one of the reasons it's so much fun to use old 486 machines for firewalls, routers, dns, e-mail, web, etc. > >Assuming it's a PCI card, try "lspci" and look for a Network/Ethernet > > > >controller ... [snip] ... also try a google search on the model of > >your card > > Worked like a charm Jacob. I googled the LNE100TX that Debian said was > > installed; that got me to linksys' support page which under Linux said > for RH to use the Tulip driver; so I went back and configured that > driver and now I'm ssh'd into the box from my workstation. Good! I thought for sure you had said it was a Netgear card... I've had several Linksys LNE100TX cards, so I would've suggested trying the tulip driver before you had to do too much searching. Sounds like you managed and learned a little bit more about Debian in the process though. <snip> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:00:44 -0500 Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> wrote: > ...I found the doc page :) > Will post back with any details I can't figure out. Enjoy your new Debian machine! Oh, and if you have a decent 'net connection, use apt-get from your nearest mirror to download the extra packages you want... much easier than downloading/burning ISOs. Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #5: Linux. Where do you want to go tomorrow?
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