Networking :: How to support unsupported NIC?

I have successfully installed DSL on a Pentium 100Mhz with 40MB RAM. I did it with the dsl-hdsinstall.

But I haven't been able to get my NIC card detected. Is it posible to load a driver? My card DID work under tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/).

Quote (foolosophy @ Feb. 27 2007,12:43)

What model NIC?

I wish I knew. For some reason, tomsrtbt stopped working. It crashes in bootup when trying to detect PCI. If it is of some help, the NIC has a label that reads "E20Cplus PW137103".

It's one of those long PCI chips, and it has two different jacks, a round one (I think it was called MXT) and the one everyone uses nowadays, that is similar to the phone jack.

Oh, and lspci in DSL doesn't show any info on the NIC (nor the audio card, nor the modem).

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Oh, and lspci in DSL doesn't show any info on the NIC (nor the audio card, nor the modem).

Then usually something is wrong with either your hardware, or your BIOS. (unless you have some entries that are of "unknown device"?)

No "unknown device" listed.

My hardware is not wrong. I successfully installed Win95 in that computer, with audio, net and modem support.

Any idea, tip, etc? I'm desperate.
Is there a way to have some hardware support similar to tomsrtbt's?

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