Salman Ahmed wrote: > I finally got a second box to install Linux on today. Unfortunately its > not the Compaq Deskpro EN I had hoped for. Its an older Digital 5000 PC > with the following specs: > > PII 233 > Adaptec AHA-2940 UW SCSI Adapter > 2 Seagate 2Gb SCSI HDs > Matrox Mystique video card (2Mb) > Digital Semiconductor EB143 based 10/100 "evaluation" ethernet card > > (1) What Ethernet driver should I select for this NIC ? I got the > details of the HW from Windows NT which the machine already has on > it. Not sure if its a PCI or ISA NIC. Has anyone heard of this NIC ?
Dunno. Sorry. > (2) How do I setup the system to use DHCP once the ethernet card is > setup properly ? I never setup a machine to use DHCP but I am assuming > that it isn't too tricky. Just install the dhcpcd package and in your /etc/init.d/network put in a line to start up this daemon with eth0 as an argument. > I would like to get the machine up and running with slink, and then plan > to upgrade it to potato and kernel 2.2.13 once networking is configured > properly. > > Thanks for any info. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
