----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 4:02 AM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] New member
> > I am running Red Hat Enterprise, and IIRC, you are running Fedora, so > they should be pretty similar. Check the Fedora website, to see if your > NIC is supported. I have been lucky so far, with Netgear, and the > generic SMC NIC's that I scrounge from older computers. > > NIC's are really cheap, and as a builder, you might (like me) have a > drawer full of them, lying around. If you have one that is supported, > just swap it into the case, and when you restart Linux, the 'kudzu' > application will find the new hardware, and ask if you want to configure > it, and if you say 'yes', you will have that problem out of the way, > with very little messing around. I had a spare D-link NIC, but I'm using it in the computer I put together for My grandkids to play on when they are here. They love the Nickelodeon site and Disney.com. I don't think I have any others laying around. Do you think it would be worth trying other distro's? or would this kind of problem be present in all flavors? > >>From what I have read, I have determined that I need to install a module > > called 'sundance.o', it is supposed to initialize my NIC, but I can't figure > > out where to find it. If anyone can help me find this thing and install, I > > would > > be most grateful! > > I don't have any experience with this. It might turn out to be something > that requires a kernel recompile... something I have not yet tried doing. I have found a Sundance module in my distro, but its sundance.ko. I don't know if that makes a difference or not. I tried to compile a sundance.o module I found on the net, but it seems the GCC 3.4 compiler that ships with FC3 is broken. I found a page with instructions on installing the GCC 4.0 compiler to fix it, but I'm thinking it might be alot simpler to just D/L and install FC4, its not like I would be losing anything by scrapping this distro and starting fresh... > A few years ago, Linux was a real pain, where finding supported hardware > was concerned, but nowadays, most newer versions support more hardware > out of the box than Windows does. > > > -- > -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ > . > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > a.. Visit your group "LINUX_Newbies" on the web. > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hqcc437/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123242975/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
