-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:28:25 -0700 "Redefined Horizons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm still relatively new to Linux, but I'm learning :] I've been using > Debian for a few months, and I'm ready to connect to the internet. > I've got a Debian box at work and at home. I'd like to connect the > work box to my company's T1 connection. > > I ran: > > dmesg | grep eth > > which returned nothing. I think this means that I don't have a device > driver for my ethernet card intsalled. I have the Debian box at work > dual-booting with MS Windows XP. So I pulled the model information > for my ethernet card of the Windows OS. It is a 3Com EtherLink XL > card. I then found a place to download a Linux driver for that model > ethernet card. However, I can't find Debian package for the driver. > Is there such a thing? > > If not, how do I install the driver? Do I have to "recompile" the > kernel, or can I just compile the source code for the driver? (I've > never compiled source code on my Linux boxes, or recompiled the > kernel. So either way, I'm going to learn something new!) What kernel are you using? (uname -a from the command line.) Taking a guess here, but you can probably just "modprobe 3c59x" to enable support for that nic. Then run ifconfig -a to see if there is an eth0 device recognized. If all works well, then you will need to setup the eth0 device in /etc/network/interfaces. HTH, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFENrUdkpJ43hY3cTURAjQbAJ0QB3VAPuYAo+r5ExJ0MRgQH21vkgCgtbYI nv1r7g2l8lcJQ/DP8+M8WnU= =Pbdz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----