NIC can't be found.

During the boot sequence I am receiving the following message;       eth0:unknown interface: Operation not supported by device   I cannot figure out why my NIC is not being seen.  I have tried several flavors of NICs (even a NE2000) and have been through the BIOS with several configurations

Re: Network card driver

Nathan, By this and an earlier message, it seems that you are stating that one must install the potato release before installing the tulip driver? I am attempting to install my first Debian system and cannot `insmod tulip`. When I do, I get a message stating that the device or resource is busy.