OK, I'm answering to my own mail b/c there's an update: > Right now I got a cheap NIC called "Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI > Card". Problem is, it comes with Linux drivers (!) but only for Red > Hat 6.x and the given files will not compile b/c the makefile is > counting on kgcc. Duh... So I cannot build the module. > > Harddrake doesn't know it, it says it's a NAtional Semiconductor > Product and that it is "unknown"
Through google I found the hint to use the natsemi module and it works. I have a working connection between notebook and desktop! Seems that the old card did work on a different pc but not in mine. Anyhow, I can ping either machine from the other. Now I'm working on everything else (firewall, routing, etc.). Thanks a lot to everybody (Pierre et al) who went out of their way to help me. wobo
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