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 :( On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:42:44 +0200 Sascha Retzki <lantis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ;) ... . >--> >--> > >--> > ------- >--> > Web Hosting at cheep price, stating at $1 per moth with your own domain, .COM, .NET, .LK, .ORG etc.. >--> > PHP, CGI, Perl, MySQL, Cpanel 9, POP3, POP3s, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, >--> > http://www.orbitsl.net >--> > >--> > - >--> > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >--> > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >--> > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >--> > >--> > >--> >--> - >--> : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >--> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >--> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >--> ------- Web Hosting at cheep price, stating at $1 per moth with your own domain, .COM, .NET, .LK, .ORG etc.. PHP, CGI, Perl, MySQL, Cpanel 9, POP3, POP3s, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, http://www.orbitsl.net - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html