Re: installing modules for NICs

2000-11-20 Thread urbanyon
hi, i did the setup - but there is no driver for my hardware. should i run modconf, and try to install the 3c59x? as for: > If you've already gone through the setup and you have a stock kernel and > modules, try loading the module for your network card, this is done with > modprobe (with option

Re: installing modules for NICs

2000-11-20 Thread urbanyon
hi, thanks - i have the 3c59x driver, and am not having any luck. i've tried: # insmod 3c59x with no luck. a search on google yields the same driver you recommend. any thoughts? thanks! On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, shaheenb wrote: > Urbanyon, > > I pretty sure that there is no 3c90x module that c

Re: installing modules for NICs

2000-11-20 Thread shaheenb
Urbanyon, I pretty sure that there is no 3c90x module that comes with debian, support for the 3com 9XX series card comes from what I call the "vortex" module (3c59x), http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html has specifics on what cards/chipsets it supports. Silver's post has directions on install

Re: installing modules for NICs

2000-11-20 Thread Silver
When you go through the debian setup it asks you which driver modules you want to load, then select your NIC driver and load it (with options like io and irq if needed). If you've already gone through the setup and you have a stock kernel and modules, try loading the module for your network card, t