On 10-Jan-2001 Bryan Carpenter wrote: > I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network > card to buy that will "just be seen" by a standard > Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312 > and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but neither seems > to be easy to set up. I did try getting the "tulip" > driver from scyld.com, but it seems to require munging > to compile and use. I'm willing to spend money to get a > card that will either just "be seen" and set up by > the default install, or else at most need to have > one of the standard optional modules chosen that > are offered early in the Debian install. >
odd, I find pci network controllers to be uniformly easy. insert card turn on machine insmod <driver> # in your case tulip Generally if this is not working, you have hardware conflicts (too many cards, or perhaps cards trying to be on similar settings).
