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Re: Woody install ignoring network card.



Hello

R. Clayton (<rclayton@monmouth.edu>) wrote:

> I'm trying to install woody on an old gateway with a 3com 3c905
> network card.
> lspci shows the card, but dmsg does not.

This probably means that the installation kernel you use does not have
built-in support for the card. Select it during the module
configuration to load the driver.

> Both knoppix 3.3 and freebsd 4.10 bring up the system with networking;

Knoppix has automatic hardware configuration (it will load modules
automagically), while Woody does not.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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