2004-02-08:
Dell Optiplex GX110 NIC on Debian
I'm installing linux on some generic desktop ("Dell Optiplex GX110") and it
has some unknown NIC onboard. And my distro doesn't know which module
to load, so I can't access networking. Annoying. And a quick web
search doesn't tell me either, so now it looks like I'm going to have
to do more research. Bah. I come up with the idea of:
% cd /lib/modules/*/net
% foreach mod (*)
? insmod $mod
? end
Heh.
That's a lot of modules. Finally I recognized eth0, and after pulling
out many of the unneeded modules I was able to access it. Turns out
it's 3c59x.o. Case you wanted to know. :)
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