Re: [PLUG] DSL ethernet card

[LeRoy Cressy <lcressy@telocity.com>]

As far as hardware is concerned it depends upon whether the driver is
compiled into the kernel or is loaded as a module.  To find out what
kind of chip the card has you might run:

	lspci -av

This  command will tell you what ethernet card is plugged into your pci
bus.  Also you will also know every other device that is part of the pci
bus.  This information is very important for you to compile and build a
custom Linux kernel.  The kernels that are shipped with every
distribution are compiled with modules for almost everything.  With the
kernel source code you have the ability to create a custom kernel taylor
made for your machine.  You don't need all of the ethernet cards
compiled into the kernel, just the one that is in your box.

To compile a kernel:

get the source code from ftp.kernel.org

make a directory  /usr/local/src/linux

put the Linux source tar file into this directory.

Use tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz  to unpack the archive.  this will create
a directory called linux which you should cd into after the archive is
unpacked.

make xconfig or make menu-config will create a .config file.
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules

the rest must be done as the root user.

make modules_install
copy both the System-Map and the arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/

reconfigure lilo.conf and run lilo to use your kernel

vze2n63r@verizon.net wrote:
> 
> To Whom it may concern,
>   I'm running SuSe 7.2  I have Verision DSL Connection with windows I
> want to switch to Linux. I can't get linux to recoginize my ethernet
> card the one that was giving to me from Verision or another one I
> bought. Could anyone tell me how to get connected with Linux.
> Doug
> dndroof@yahoo.com
> 
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