On 11/22/05, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: .. > > The D-Link NIC came with a cd labeled DFE538TX, which holds the > > driver, which I installed. > > Hope you mean "on Windows". Don't touch it for Linux. I've succesfully used this card in a different computer running Linux. Also, the box says "linux" on it. At the moment the computer in question will have to remain a windows box, but I hope to change that down the road. .. > Do they show up in Device Manager under Windows 2000? If they do, then > it's probably just a Windows driver error. If not, then there may be > problems with the PCI system or the motherboard. No they don't. I did install the windows driver for the D-Link, but I'm still not seeing anything in the device manager for ?ethernet device?, IIRC. > If you just want to check that the NICs work, I'd recommend a live CD > variant (one that boots into Linux straight from the CD). I haven't > heard of a Fedora based live CD recently: I'd look at the Ubuntu live CD > or Knoppix / Gnoppix. I'll do you one better: tom's. What am I looking for? Under Tom's Linux ifconfig didn't show much. (I'm not sure how to mount a floppy and didn't write down the results.) Tom's didn't mention a specific NIC, but *did* give an IP address of 127.0.0.1 IRRC. This points to a hardware issue? > (I hope no-one minds if I temporarily go off-topic: there should be > drivers for the Dlink card built into Windows 2000. You might care, > through Device Manager, trying right-clicking on the card, going to > Driver tab -> Update Driver, and choosing one of the other driver > options.) .. I certainly don't mind, although I do feel some guilt merely *mentioning* win2k in a linux group ;) I'm not seeing it in device manager, though. More evidence of a hardware issue? -Thufir
