Re: First Time Install Problems
From: Paul Johnson (baloo_at_ursine.ca)
Date: 03/17/04
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To: Tony Anderson <tonys.linux@ntlworld.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:06:42 -0800
Tony Anderson <tonys.linux@ntlworld.com> writes:
> I'm new to Linux and keen to experience the stability of Debian
> particularly.
Welcome to the brave GNU world, my friend!
> I had a limited amount of experience of Red Hat 7 a couple
> of years back and have recently installed Lindows 4.5 which I beleive Is
> based on Debian but appears to be quite restrictive.
Yes, one of the things that makes me steer people away from Lindows
is, by default, you're always root. Lindows makes roughly the same
mistake that makes a lot of the bugs in Windows possible with that one
step.
> Unfortunately it appears as if my NetGear FA311/312 NIC card is not
> supported by the Linux kernel, it is using the 'National
> Semiconductor Corporation DP83815' driver in Lindows, could someone
> please point me to the correct drivers and a howto on installing
> them ?
There are no sub-gigabit Ethernet adapters that aren't supported by
Linux. Thank you for the detail, however, this makes it easier for us
to help you.
That being said, a quick search[1] through Google turned up a web
page[2] that seems to indicate that you want the natsemi kernel module.
[2] http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
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