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Linux -- NIC Drivers?

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theycallmeaububba

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Must I load the driver for my network card on a linux machine? Do I need to know the IRQ interupt?
(how would I know this, an internet site said it is usually 10 for nics?)

I guess I am spoiled to win2k, since it did everything for me! I am trying to get internet access but it is not working.

I have a win2k DHCP server and all firewalls are disabled. Linux shows my NIC but Mozilla is saying that I cannot access the internet.

I am assuming, it is b/c I have not loaded the driver for the NIC.

Thanks,

Jc
 
You do need a driver.
You only need to know the IRQ if it's ISA, and sometimes not even then.
If Linux shows the NIC it's probably already active.


type '/sbin/ifconfig -a' and see if eth0 shows up with an expected IP address, if so try pingin the Win2K box. If that works the card is working. You probably have to put the DNS servers you use in your /etc/resolv.conf so Linux knows how to resolve names to IP addresses, if you had the DHCP server handing this out it would have happened automatically.

Anyway, /etc/resolv.conf should have a line in it something like 'nameserver 192.168.1.1', add the line if it's not there or replace the IP if it's incorrect.
 
In most linux systems it detects in automagically during install. Maybe it's the DHCP config.

Which distro are you using?

What does the command -> /sbin/ifconfig say?
 
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