On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:29, John Richard Smith wrote: > PM wrote: > > >On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > > > >>But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with > >>your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ? > >> > >>John > >> > >> > >> > >> > >I bought the first/cheapest and had no problems - turned out to have a > >RealTek chipset immediately recognised by Mandrake - cost UKP 9.00. > > > > > > > > > > > Do you mean to say that the system itself only had to recognise the > ethonet card for the router/modem to work, you didn't have to spend > hours and hours in badly documented procedural to get the ethonet card > configured properly ? > > John > >
No problem at all with the card - with a standard installation there'e loads of drivers in the kernel as modules. If you've configured the kernel yourself type lspci -v in a terminal and find what kind of card it is and then modprobe that driver. (as for any PCI card you've got) Configuring the router/modem is a different story - if you want to set up firewall (for example), but then you've got security that a modem (USB or ethernet) won't give you. -- pm ___ It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire
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