Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > Hi. I responded to your message above about the 3c905c. You seem to > > be taking my word that you can't get the driver for this card. > > That's daft :) We use nothing but 3c905c's at work > > The module you need is '3c59x' and is part of the s

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Daniel Freedman wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Adam Bender wrote: OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Kent West
Daniel Freedman wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Adam Bender wrote: OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to get packages. I h

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
> Hi. I responded to your message above about the 3c905c. You seem to > be taking my word that you can't get the driver for this card. That's daft :) We use nothing but 3c905c's at work The module you need is '3c59x' and is part of the standard distribution - yeh I know it's not terribly l

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Adam Bender wrote: > OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to > install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my > ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to get > packages. I have a driver for th

Re: Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
> Somehow mount the DOS partition and read files from there? Yep :) mkdir /mnt/msdos mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos > Format a disk so Linux will read it, and copy the files from DOS to there? Yep :) mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat is the Windows9x long-filename support ... you can al

Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Adam Bender
OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to get packages. I have a driver for the card, but the only thing I can do is put it on