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@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 ;) ... .
modprobe 8139too
HTH, Chuck
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