Hello. Remember the first time you stared at MS-DOS 2.0 and you had no idea what to do? I feel much the same way with Linux right now. Anyway, I am taking step by step to learn. I have three computers and I'd like to hook'em up together via TP cables and a hub. My first dilemma is installing network cards. Windows 95 of course installed the ethernet card without too much fuss, although so much for the feasibility of Plug and Pray. I disgress. The 486 running Linux accepted the SMC card without any problems. With the help of Ethernet-How-To and plenty of coffee, I managed to get the card to work in almost no-time. My other computer wouldn't want to initialize the card. After confusing the card for an 8016 I discover that it was actually a 3016, due to the unreadable version numbers written on it. Reading the Ethernet-How-To I discover that: > 5.36.9. SMC 3016 > > Status -- Not Supported > > These are 16bit i/o mapped 8390 cards, much similar to a > generic NE2000 card. If you can get the specifications from > SMC, then porting the NE2000 driver would probably be quite > easy. They are not very common. What are the chances that there may actually be a driver out there for these puppies? Keeping it on a bright side, the Ethernet How-To is dated: > v2.66, 6 July 1998 Almost 8 months ago. Does anyone if a driver does exist now and where I can find it? If not, am I better off to just go find a card that Linux may like? Thanks again for the support. Please forgive my Linux-related ignorance. Leandro p.s. For the curious, I am using Red Hat 5.2. ___ Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672) ZimID 46B98555 1993/12/15 0D 6E 96 68 D6 B3 9A 96 20 ED 1F AF 11 46 13 79 ICQ UIN: 889318 http://www.capnasty.org
