How to support unsupported NIC?Forum: Networking Topic: How to support unsupported NIC? started by: foolosophy Posted by foolosophy on Feb. 27 2007,17:43
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/). Posted by lucky13 on Feb. 27 2007,18:39
What model NIC? Posted by foolosophy on Feb. 27 2007,19:06
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). Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 27 2007,19:48
Posted by foolosophy on Feb. 27 2007,20:05
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? Posted by foolosophy on Feb. 27 2007,21:31
Tomsrtbt is working again.dmesg says the following:
EDIT: I managed to solve the problem. The answer is in this post. I'm sorry I bothered you, but I had searched in the forums and hadn't found what I needed up to now. < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=ne2000 > Posted by PINGU on Mar. 01 2007,05:03
could try a different PCI slot my 2 cents lol |