Re: Installing a 3Com EhterLink Driver
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:28:25 -0700
"Redefined Horizons" <redefined.horizons@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm still relatively new to Linux, but I'm learning :] I've been using
> Debian for a few months, and I'm ready to connect to the internet.
> I've got a Debian box at work and at home. I'd like to connect the
> work box to my company's T1 connection.
>
> I ran:
>
> dmesg | grep eth
>
> which returned nothing. I think this means that I don't have a device
> driver for my ethernet card intsalled. I have the Debian box at work
> dual-booting with MS Windows XP. So I pulled the model information
> for my ethernet card of the Windows OS. It is a 3Com EtherLink XL
> card. I then found a place to download a Linux driver for that model
> ethernet card. However, I can't find Debian package for the driver.
> Is there such a thing?
>
> If not, how do I install the driver? Do I have to "recompile" the
> kernel, or can I just compile the source code for the driver? (I've
> never compiled source code on my Linux boxes, or recompiled the
> kernel. So either way, I'm going to learn something new!)
What kernel are you using? (uname -a from the command line.)
Taking a guess here, but you can probably just "modprobe 3c59x" to
enable support for that nic. Then run ifconfig -a to see if there is an
eth0 device recognized.
If all works well, then you will need to setup the eth0 device
in /etc/network/interfaces.
HTH,
Jacob
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