On Sunday 02 December 2001 01:36 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am Debian newbie. I have a LAN that was running and is now in need of > reconstruction. On the LAN were two Linux boxes and two Macs. The Linux > box that provided internet access via ppp has a Netgear fa311 NIC. This > card is not supported by potato. I have obtained another NIC, a Linksys > LNE100TX, which uses a DEC tulip chip and should be useable with potato. > I would like to do just what is needed to configure the potato machine > for this card and for LAN networking. I would like to avoid simply > running through the complete install process for just this one change > (and the consequent configuring of a network interface). How can I do > this? > > Paul
get hold of the kernel source and compile and install a new kernel with appropriate support.
