I use slackware 8.1 with isc dhcp, and netconfig had no problems setting it up. Greg On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:11:13PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, wrote: > > > Hi, I believe this is the case. My net card is a PCI/Fast ethernet dec 21143 > > and If I found correct information in internet, it is not supported by > > Linux. > > I heard about a package called tulip but I don't have the skills to do the > > system modifications yet. I am very new to Linux and I couldn't understand > > yet how things work. > > Alexandre > > > hi, what distrobution of linux are you using, because afaik, tulip is > infact supported by the kernel and has been so for some time. > since kernel 2.2x as far as I can remember. > if you're running slackware, or zipspeak with is just a stripped down > version of slackware, the netconfig utility should ask if you want to > probe for yer ethernet card. > although I seem to remember slackware having a problem with dhcp. I don't > know if this is rectified yet as I haven't tried ever to configure dhcp on > slackware since I found assigning a static ip address to be sufficent for > my needs. > hth > and for us to be more helpfull, we need as much info as you can give us. > but, that will come with time and many reminders. > hth. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
