On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:45:54PM -0700, francisco wrote: > El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 22:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:00:39PM -0700, francisco wrote: > > > El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??: > > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:02:31AM +0200, Matthias Feichtinger wrote: > > > > > I had the same problem. > > > > > The mistake was made while installing. > > > > > It is not possible to change things, e.g. having to configure more > > > > > than one ethernetcard.
> > > > Are you seriously telling people that you can't add a NIC to Debian > > > > without re-installing? Get a life. > > > Could you, forget the theoretical explanation and show it by a simple > > > example? i have the same problem, and it can not be solve by ifconfig, > > > iwconfig, route and others. Broadcom card 4311, Compaq Presario v3019US. > > > > > > It seems that the linux driver for your card requires that you steal the > > firmware from another driver and stick it into the linux driver. Good > > luck with that. > > > > Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported > > by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning > > eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian networking > > tools. > > > > In short, your problem isn't with the networking tools, its with a > > non-functional driver. > > Ah, ok i understand that you can not do it!. You can only in theory! > You challenged me on setting up two NICs in Linux, not about getting a half-assed driver to work. Two different problems. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
