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Project-2501
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 2:55 am    Post subject: can't get NIC to work Reply with quote

I have a dlink dl2518 and I can't get gentoo to find it. I tried to modprobe dl2k, sis900, via-rhine and sundance and nothing worked. Please help me. :P
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you still trying to install?
Isnt you NIC autoconfigured?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yay! got it working now. As it turns out, the ethernet card that was in the computer was a crappy old ISA card which wasn't plug and play compatible. Luckily I had a new Linksys card kicking around so I quickly installed it. Now everything works great.
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