Assuming, of course, that he got the card up, which leads us back to his original problem....
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: >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] >> > > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
