Dave Wreski wrote:
> So, my suggestion is to go to Donald Becker's site, and download his
> latest driver, and recompile your kernel.
>
> You can find Donald Becker's site (the guy from NASA, who wrote
> practically all of our network drivers...) at
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
>
> See the Ethernet-HOWTO for more information, as well as the Kernel-HOWTO
> for tips on compiling the kernel. Updating the driver simply consists of
> dropping in a replacement source file, and recompiling.
> > Is there a way to get this thing up and running in a timely fashion?
> > Since I don't have the CD at work, I planned on installing over the
> > network -- difficult to do without an alert card. Any ideas?
>
> The updated 3Com driver is probably 30k or so. If you have to add the
> downloading of the kernel source to that, just in case, it may add another
> few megs..
This would certainly be easy enough, but the real problem is that I need to
install Linux on the box in the first place -- and right now, I need to
install over the network. Can I update the module on the supplimentary disk?
Thanks,
-Fred
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