eh, won't it show when typing ifconfig with one or more options ? -----Original Message----- From: Casey Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:26 PM To: John Griffiths Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: NIC identification
often they will pe printed onto th card, or printed onto a sticker that is placed on the card or one of the chips on the card, it will be a in the form: 00:01:02:70:5E:B1 or possbile without the colons, but it will contain that many digits. The first 6 numbers (00:01:02) identify the vendor, and i this case thats 3com (3c905-c-txm) -Casey On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > At 11:38 PM 1/16/2001 -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > >if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works > >for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the > >card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:yy and often on the card > >somewhere) then search google for a MAC address to vendor converter and > >pop on the xx:xx:xx from the mac addr and it will give you the vendor of > >the card and then you can check thier website for the model number and try > >and figure out what driver to use > > > >-Casey > well the things we learn.. > > any ideas what the MAC might look like? where it may be? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
