Just FWIW, my boss bought a new laptop and purchased an
inexpensive (I think it was a RealTek) PCMCIA ethernet card
and another distribution (*cough* Caldera Open Linux
*cough*) saw it and the LCD display just fine. :-) I
suspect Mandrake 6.1 might be better at this than 6.0 was,
as he tried to install RedHat (we're almost exclusively a
RedHat shop here, 'cause it's stable and mostly
hack-resistant <G>) 6.0 off a CD I had and it wouldn't find
half the stuff on his laptop...
John
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> I have finally found some more documentation and also a linux driver
> for the Ethernet Card I have (REALTEK 8019). I decided to try to
> recompile the kernel, with that specific driver, and just trade back
> the card for a better one if it still doesn't work.
>
> I didn't do it before because the vendor ensured me it was a fully NE2K
> compatible thing, which is not the case. My fault... :-(
>
> I have 3 questions at this point:
>
> 1) The driver provided by the manifacturer is for linux 1.2.13. Whould
> it work
> in Mandrake 6.1? (tgz file attached)
>
> 2) Where do I find all the choices made in compiling the current kernel,
> so I don't screw up anything else (/usr/src/linux/.config??)
>
> 3) In case it doesn't work, which (unexpensive) eternet cards do you
> recommend?
>
> Thanks once more to anybody who helped me to learn a lot!
>
> Marco
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