Subject: Re: PCI networking card
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 08:01:42 MDT
If your new NIC card doesn't show up, you can just compile it as a
module, and link the module into the kernel. Check out the following
website:
www.scyld.com/expert/modules.html
You can also find the driver for almost any NIC card out there on the
above site.
--- Sean
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Bryn Hughes wrote:
> You bet!
>
> Depending on what NIC you're planning on using, you may not even have to
> recompile!
>
> Most likely, your 'new' NIC will show up as eth1, but YMMV... Check dmesg
> afterwards to see which NIC is which.
>
> Bryn
>
> At 08:56 PM 6/6/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hi there,
> > This used PowerComputing machine only has a 10Mb ethernet
> >interface. Can I just drop in a 100Mb PCI networking card, recompile the
> >kernel and run?
> >
> >--
> > -Mike Melanson
>
>
>
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