Re: Linux Help

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

Uh, I like bottom posting and removing unnecessary lines.
Kev wrote:
> I have installed Debina with out my LAN cards (Realtec) i did add the
> cards after the Denian installation, now i cant seem to get Debian to
> detect them :(

What did you do and how did it fail?

Rheorical:

  How does hardware detection fall into administration?
  I would have posted this topic on linux-newbie.

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:42:44 +0200
> Sascha Retzki <lantis@iqranet.info> wrote:

>>--> Am Di, 2004-07-20 um 18.27 schrieb Kev:
>>--> > how can you make Debian Detect hardware after the installation ?
>>--> 
>>--> This question is ( among many other debian-specific questions ) covered
>>--> by their documentations, but ok :)

>>--> "detect" hardware .. hm .. first of, /etc/modules is a
>>--> one-modulename-per-line file is loaded at boottime, so this is the place
>>--> where you put the module-names in ( without the path or the .o ). The
>>--> detection is imho manually done with debian. Tip is to use modprobe
>>--> instead of isnmod to load dependencies of modules, use lspci -v to find
>>--> out all pci/Isa/... adapters and chipnames in your computer ... . Linux
>>--> module-names are named after chipsetname, not that what the vendor tries
>>--> to tell you on the cage ;) ... .

modprobe 8139too

HTH, Chuck