Rory OConnor said: > this is a very basi newbie question - > > I popped in a second NIC (cheap - linksys NC100) for some internal > networking purposes. How can I find out if this card is supported? > and if it is, Do I need to re-compile the kernel to add support > for it on my machine?
need to find what kind of chip is on the card. from my quick search it seems to use the tulip driver. but you quite possibly have to compile a new version of the driver to get it working. a good place to start may be here: http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html if you have to compile a new module, its my opionion that its just easier to compile a new kernel :) if you have the tulip driver installed you can try to load it by doing: modprobe tulip and see if it loads and detects the card..if so great..if not see the above about updating the driver. assuming the NC100 uses tulip you may want to run more searches to confirm that. nate
