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Posted: Jan. 28 2005,19:34 QUOTE

DSL is totally my thing, it works perfectly to give free internet access with old (and new) computers, in the social centre in Barcelona I work with.

However, the network-cards are not being recognised if I connect the computers with the router/switch that is connected with a powerline adapter.

A funny thing is though that puppy linux does recognize them after I put it on 'auto-probe', but because the graphic design of puppy is not so easy for newbies as dsl, and because dsl works easier, I want to work with DSL.

They are all old cards that work fine under Windows or if connected with the main-hub.

SO what do I do, what scripts can I run to make the cards regocnised.
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Posted: Jan. 29 2005,02:44 QUOTE

If they are old non-isapnp cards, you can "modprobe" the driver name inside a root terminal window and then run netcardconfig.

You will need to know the model number of your network cards in order to find out the proper driver name.
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Posted: Jan. 30 2005,19:48 QUOTE

That's funny, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to use Puppy Linux, but my network card wouldn't work with it. It worked with DSL, though-so I had to use that.
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Posted: Feb. 03 2005,00:41 QUOTE

And so I managed., unexpected but true. The thing is that the powerline adapter has been changed, so now I work with a normal connection and hub. But, I think this shouldn't even matter, which I will check later.

What I did was simple, I already knew something about the modprobe command, but not how to really use it. So, after a search on the web with the carddetails in my hand, I found some helpfull links which told me which driver to load. But, than it still wouldn't work

Another link told me to save the configuration in the bootup file, and thanks to other forum threads I managed to find out where the bootfile is, and how to change it.

These are the commands I have now put in the file (mp) /opt/bootlocal.sh

modprobe 3c509
ifconfig eht0 10.11.12.13
pump

And now it works fine. The machine seems only to be a bit unstable, and sometimes it stoppes responding, especially with heavier applications such as firefox and even with opera. So I have to test some older versions of DSL or simply to put some more ram in the machine?

Anyway, this was just the first one, more older and relatively newer machines are to follow suit, driven by DSL as a flying horse. Thanks.
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Posted: Feb. 03 2005,05:36 QUOTE

FYI,

If you do not have a large amount of RAM available on your PC, my advice is to either:

(1) Create a linux swap partition on your hard drive or

(2)  If you have an existing MSDOS/Win95/98/ME partition, you can create a DOS swapfile on your existing partition.

Either of these approaches will help tremendously with crashes due to no more free RAM available.
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