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ok well i just got linux and installed it any everything. i booted it up for my first time, and it is really nice. ok well, i tried to open the web browser it has, and since i have a cable modem i thought i would be able to go to websites. but it said like unknown host, and i dont know if it detected my ethernet card or not because i do not know if it is compatible, its made by "f=ma" its like an unknown company i guess. but all i want to know is how do i install my ethernet card so i can go online with linux? once i get online then it will be good for me because im getting sick of windows lagging and all that. well if anyone knows, please post. thanks - joka
Dark Ninja
10-04-2001, 11:41 PM
Which distrobution of Linux do you have. (Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, etc.) If we know that, there may be an easier way for you to detect your card that we can give you.
Dark Ninja
Nekopa
10-05-2001, 03:34 AM
Also check out this page, as it has worked for me almost every time
Cable modem setup (http://www.kernel-panic.org/user_files/cox.at.home.html)
Lee
FroggySwamp
10-05-2001, 09:26 AM
Another suggestion as well, if you have between $5.00 and $15.00, the netgear fg311 netowrk cards work great and are the cheapest. I wentr to best buy for example and they actually were selling these puppies for $5.00 (I bought 10, but ima geek :p ).
Also, have you typed ifconfig at the prompt? Do you have a firewall? I use cable to access the internet as well, works great for whatever flavor of Linux is currently installed :D
Good luck!
i got linux redhat version 7.1. I dont think my network card is supported, im probably going to try to get some money and buy like a 3com or something cheap.