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Re: Fast Ethernet Card support .....

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From: Pavel Grinfeld
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
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Huseni, you have probably gotten your card to work now, but if not, I
wanted to let you know that Linksys themselves have the necessary driver at
their website!

Pavel

Hus wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Greetings!!!
>
> I've a LinkSys LNE100Tx Fast Ethernet card on my PC which my SuSE Linux
> 5.3 fails to recognise/startup.
> Apparently this card is not in the list of standard networking card
> modules provided  by my Linux vendor. So I tried selecting a similar
> 3Com card and a few other standard cards ..but no luck.(Is this the
> right way to do it?? how do u connect non-standard cards anyway?? do I
> need a specific linux device driver for it??)
>
> I have entered relevant info such as ip addresses, subnet
> masks,gateways,dns etc.
> I dont see "eth0" in my proc/net/dev or my ifconfig. They both show me a
> "lo"-local loop and a dummy device...thats it.
>
> I need  to understand if this card is supported by Linux at al?? And
> what are my options other than buying a new card!!
>
> Need help ..sooooooonnnn...!!
>
> Thanks
> Huseni
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From: Pavel Grinfeld <levap@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: Fast Ethernet Card support .....
Date: 1999/04/22
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