Thanks to Ossama's and Gilbert's advice, I could fix my problem by adding a line consisting of the string 3c509 to the /etc/modules file.
Apparently the install program never wrote this string into the file because I had failed to install a network card altogether when I originally built the base system. I missed this step because the menu did not ask me to do it because it did not auto-detect a network card. When I discovered after my first boot-up that the network connection was missing I went back to the install menu, but did not re-initialize my partitions but mounted the already existing partitions, and then initialized the network device. Since it never asked me to re-build the base system I never did. I had the hardest time reading the floppies and did not want to go through this again. Apparently the install program did not discover the inconsistency between the modules I had currently declared and the modules present in the somewhat older /etc/modules file. Is this a bug, or am I asking too much of the install program? Thank you for your help, Hans. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
