On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 15:36, 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?
You should already have the module for the tulip in your /lib/modules/your-kernel-version/net directory. Adding tulip to /etc/modules will load it on boot for you. Modprobe tulip as root should load it and respond appropriately. If you can't find it: Compile the tulip module from the appropriate kernel sources and install the module. You're going to need to bascially copy your .config file from your running kernel, should be in /boot into the source directory then make sure libncurses5-dev or 4 is installed and make menuconfig or go with the xconfig route (has it's own dependencies tcl/tk etc) to get the tulip module selected. Then just make dep make modules and make modules_install. If you're going this far you should also look into make-kpkg and building your own custom kenels which debian can handle as a package. --mike
