simple NIC problem, but need help

[DaAzZkIkR]

ok, here is the problem i am having;

i have gentoo 1.2, and when initially installed, all i had avalaible as a NIC card was this ISA 3Com Etherlink 509 series.

i bought a Asound 10/100 PCI NIC , so i want to replcae with the one above.


i took the on 3Com out and put the Asound in but i dont know where to go on from there.

my attempt is to uninstall the old one and install the new one, but i have no clue on how to.


thanks in advance
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[garo]

recompile your kernel and devfs wil take care of the rest.

if you wonder how to do this : http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+kernel+compile

[keratos68]

You will almost certainly need kernel support for the card - I dont believe that devfs alone will get your card working. In any event, if you are not running a devfs fs, then it is certainly worth doing so.

For you eth card, check out the kernel compile HOWTOs, because you will need to compile the card support as either kernel space built-in or as a module. I'm not a Linux box at the moment so cannot advise you what the module name is, but you will most probably want to insert it into your /etc/modules.autoload file so that its available as boot.
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