THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > The D-Link NIC came with a cd labeled DFE538TX, which holds the > driver, which I installed. I replied: > Hope you mean "on Windows". Don't touch it for Linux. Thufir said: > 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. Um ... Sorry, I meant "don't touch the driver CD". It may well have drivers on it ... for 2.2 and earlier. I asked: > 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. Thufir said: > 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 they haven't got drivers, they might be coming up under "other devices" (or whatever the equivalent is: I don't have a Windows box here to check). > 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? Tom's isn't *that* good a test. It's *very* squeezed to get things onto a floppy. I wouldn't be sure that it has all the drivers on it. You could look in /proc/pci and trying to work out each of the devices are. You'd see PCI IDs looking something like 8086:1102. 8086 is the company code (in this case Intel), and 1102 the device ID. You can look them up at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii/ Or, on a boot CD, you could use lspci, which should give human-readable values. It's also worth looking at dmesg, /var/log/dmesg, or messages to see if either of them are mentioned. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | "But alas, we don't need a car, so I have a bus @westexe.demon.co.uk | timetable and one day the buses will read it too." | -- Telsa Gwynne
