Just out of curiosity, what are the D-Link NIC models in question? D-Link is common enough that in most cases I would expect that the requisite drivers would already be there ready to be picked up at boot time. For RedHat/Fedora, that would be Anaconda's doing and you should get some queries during the next boot about whether you wanted to keep the old drivers and whether you wanted to install new ones. Assuming that the old drivers couldn't simply handle the new NICs anyway.
The drivers are usually kernel modules under the /lib/modules directory tree, although they could also be compiled into the kernel. One caveat, though. In Red Hat/Fedora, the hardware (MAC) address of the old NIC would prevent the old /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file from being applied to a new NIC, even if it was the same exact brand and model. To get around this, delete the hardware address line from that file. If you're running Debian/Ubuntu, this doesn't apply. Come to think of it, we've reached the Year of the Linux Desktop. Just go into the System/Preferences/Network Configuration menu on the GUI desktop. Tim On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 18:49 -0500, Raymond Church wrote: > My home network is protected (I think) by an ipcop router. Friday, one of > the NICs failed after about four years and a second one is temperamental > with the cable connection. So, I bought two new D-Link NICs, but I need to > install the drivers. > > My question, then, is where does linux install such drivers? I can login as > root and the box has a CD (the NICs came with the drivers and M$-Win > software to install the drivers :-/ ). > > Thanks for any support, > G8r.Ray (Gator Ray) > [aka, Raymond] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
