Problem installing Mandrake 8.2 on Acer Veriton 5500

[James McNeill]

Aey.
for a really thourough description of NIC installation, have a look through
the ethernet howto:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Ethernet-HOWTO.html

with any luck, mandrake will have the driver for your card, so give this a
try:
cd to:  /lib/modules/????/net   where ???? is your kernel version.
type:  insmod ./eepro100.o

if you don't get any errors, this probably worked. you'll want to add
eepro100 to the modules that get loaded at startup, but I don't know where
mandrake keeps it's modules file.
type 'ifconfig -a' to see if the interface is going. if it's not, you will
need to manually configure the interface using ifconfig (try 'ifconfig eth0
up').

good luck ;}
-James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Markwart" <markwart at pcug.org.au>
To: <linux at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Problem installing Mandrake 8.2 on Acer Veriton 5500


| Have tried a number of times to install Mandrake 8.2 on an Acer Veriton
| 5500 however the network card was not recognised, and couldn't seem to
| install it manually (eepro100) because of my lack of knowledge. Could
| anyone point me at simple instructions to manually install networking,
| otherwise I'll use SUSE which does recognise the network card.
| TIA
| Victor
|