No NIC support

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 2:32 am Post subject: No NIC support

What's the best way to proceed if my NIC isn't supported by gentoo's install? I have a 3c990 that I have a driver for, but the module I built for RedHat 7.3 weill not install in gentoo, and it won't be possible to build a new one for gentoo until I have gcc and the kernel source installed. Any and all suggestions welcome and appreciated. Thanks.

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 2:43 am Post subject:

by the way, if any gentoo devlopers read this, it'd be really great if you could add support for this NIC in a furture release. The driver can be obtained from http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownloads.htm. Mandrake provides support for it in their newest distribution (although that's the only one I know of), so there shouldn't be any problem incorporating the drivers into your own distribution. Thanks again.

Chris Hickman · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 3:54 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject:

So I guess there's just no way of getting around this short of waiting for a future release and hoping the driver gets included?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

You might try NE2000 compatible driver, or if your manual mentions compatibility with another type of card.
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