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Posted: Nov. 22 2004,09:47 QUOTE
I have recently loaded DSL onto an old machine (Pentium 133) with a SMC ultra network card.  Loading was fine and the system works well, but when I run netcardconfig I get the error "No supported network card found".

Do I need to install a driver? If so how?

I am only beginning on Linux so I will need some simple instructions.
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Posted: Nov. 22 2004,12:21 QUOTE
Take a look at http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Module-HOWTO/. You probably have to run these two commands:

modprobe 8390
modprobe smc-ultra

If you are connected to a network with a dhcp server, you have to run "pump" (without quotes).
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Posted: Nov. 28 2004,11:01 QUOTE
Many thanks skaos.
Your advise was spo on. I now understand a little bit more about LKMs. I also worked out that by putting the commands in the bootlocal.sh file, the network card will be detected on boot.
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Posted: Nov. 28 2004,21:28 QUOTE
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Posted: Nov. 30 2004,11:38 QUOTE
Hi,

I have got similar problem.
I installed simple NE2000 network card with modprobe, it was fine, netcardconfig found the card, and I get an IP address from DHCP.
But when I reboot, it forget everything, I have to install the network card manually again.

I am very new in linux, please help..
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