Need help activating NIC on Red Hat 8.0

[Phedis]

I just bought RedHat 8.0. I installed Linux on an older Dell that I had around. It has a P3 processor, 128MB Ram, ATI Mach 64 video card. I am using the graphical interface instead of the text interface.I installed a NIC after setting up Linux. The NIC shows up in the Network Configuration box, but it wont let me activate it. What am I missing here?


Now I am new to Linux. I bought a huge 1200 page book on it. So maybe I am just stupid and not seeing the obvious. But if anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanx

 

[GigaCluster]

Before everyone rips you a new one, change "Linux 8" to something like "RedHat 8.0" or "Mandrake 8.0" or whatever distribution. Linux is the kernel, whose latest version is 2.4.21.

 

[pkananen]

funny, my onboard nic worked fine w/o drivers or anything on distro 8 redhat, but didn't work untili installed drivers on xp pro.

 

[Nothinman]

Since the NIC is what's giving you problems it might be good to mention what type of NIC it is...

 

[Phedis]

I tried 3 different cards. 3COM NIC, LinkSys NIC, and D-Link NIC....all three would not activate.

 

[Linulux]

you are gonna need to know what kind it is before you can start..