Re: rerunning autodetect

[Christopher Nelson <chris@cavein.org>]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:22:10AM -0500, Mark Tilford wrote:
> On 5/2/06, Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> >On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:45:28 -0500, Mark Tilford wrote:
  <snip>
> >> /sbin/ifconfig only lists loopback.
> >> lspci | grep Ethernet yields nothing.
> >> The card is a 3c509.
> >
> >Try to modprobe the 3c509 and/or the 3c59x kernel module. Maybe the
> >device will be created then, or you get an error message which gives us
> >a clue.
> 
> modprobe 3c509
> /sbin/ifconfig/eth0 up
> dhclient
> 
> and I can connect out!

Good!  Now you'll probably want to add 3c509 as a seperate line in
/etc/modules

> Thank you to all who helped!
> 
> Now I just have do a long download of everything...
> Any other likely gotchas that may occur because I installed on a
> different computer?

Nothing I can think of.

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