On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:08:02PM +1000, Nathan Goss wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Debian, and am having difficulty setting up my Network Card. > > I currently have a 3Com 3C905-TX PCI 10/100 network card. > > It is apparently supported in the kernel distributed with the current Potato > release. I have read that it should be auto-detected. > > It doesn?t seem to be detected and set up in the Debian Install. > > How do I go about configuring it?
The driver is complied as a module, rather than into kernel... just run insmod to install it: insmod 3c59x Note that you'll need to include it in /etc/modules to have it insmod'ed at startup: echo 3c59x >> /etc/modules You can now configure it with ifconfig, or edit /etc/network/interfaces to have it configured at boot-up. Read the ifconfig(8) and the interfaces(5) man pages for details. Checking out the Ethernet-HOWTO at linuxdoc.org would be a smart move also... HTH, Iain
