| AnonymousFC3 2004-11-28, 5:49 pm |
| Lee:
if your card is tulip based (DEC chip).
Then I have a tulip (Linksys NIC) based system, and the /etc/modules.conf
(Red Ha 8.0)
alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542 # Andre
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 tulip
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias sound-slot-0 es1371
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null
2>&1|| :
alias char-major-81 bttv
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Note also that the newer versions of redhat based distributions do a better
job at detecting and installing the Hardware.
Suggest you try Fedora Core 3.
Note also that FEdora and RedHat based disros are good for their stability
and support (many RPM's available).
But for hardware detection/install some othre distros do a better job, I
would suggest that both Mandrake and especially Suse are better in this
area,
But a good starting point (because it runs from a CD without writing your
hard disk) is Knoppix.
I would suggest you download knoppix, (for example from
http://linuxiso.org/ ). You need a single CD, and if your pcmcia card runs
then you can see what is there).
You other options are to look at Mandrake and Suse, but for doing this you
will need to reinstall Linux.. and you may not want to do this.
Fedora Core 3 is much better also at detect/install new hardware, and may do
the job, suggest you post a simple question here like:
"Did FC3 detect and install your Tulip based card ok?"
The tulip chip is quite popular for its performances but even on RH9 I had
to do a manual install.
Hopefully Red Hat or the Fedora crowd will put some more work for hardware
detection. This excellent distro deserves it.
Hope this helped. (Sorry it is not a step by step).
AFC3
ps: I usually avoid the "RTFM silliness" but the very good Red Hat manuals
are available on line, the configuration guide for almost any X86 RH based
distro will be useful: they are all the same on this.
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Lee Reynolds wrote:
> Hi, all.
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