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  1. 02-12-2006, 02:49 AM #1
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    Getting ethernet card going

    I want to install an ethernet card on my system (see specs below). It is a Netgear FA310TX. Do I need to do anything b4 installing it? How do I config KDE to work with it? Thanks for all the help in advance!
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    This may do you some good: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...cat/149/page/1 , but I would guess that it would be autodetected and autoconfigured.
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    just issue "modprobe 8139too" and use whatever tools are availible to configure the interface...
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    So, in other words, it will be autodetected and I can use modprobe 8139too to config it? Please help as I am new at this
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    it will be detected when the module (8139too) is loaded and you'll get an interface eth0, eth1 or whatever. then use whatever gui config tools your distro supplies.
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    Alright, inserted the card, booted to kde. When I go to KNetworkconfig, I can see the card eth0, but it won't let me configure it. It says disabled, but it won't let me enable it. and yes, it is in admin mode.
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    I don't use the gui tools for this very reason: We have no idea what's really going on...
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    paste in here the output from "lspci" and "dmesg | grep eth"
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    lspci lists a lot of stuff, but in there it does say:
    0000:01:12.0 Ethernet Controller: Lite-on Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
    dmesg | grep eth states:
    eth0: Lite-on 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0001e800, 00:AO:CC:D6:FC:E8 IRQ 10

    EDIT: Seems 2 me like it just is not getting enabled. Maybe an entry to /etc/modules.conf?
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    Just to let y'all know, its fixed. I got the windows drivers, and used ndiswrapper to install it. Thanks for all of your help!
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