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Mandrake 8.1 Network Cards
Name: kt3448 Date: February 14, 2002 at 15:57:35 Pacific
Comment:
I'm installing Mandrake 8.1 and when I come to the network card section, my network adapter (Linksis) is not one of the choices, so I can't figure out how to finish installing the system. Is there a way to maunually chose Linksys or do I need to buy a new ethernet card such as 3com that is provided in the list of options?
Name: TheWooky Date: February 19, 2002 at 11:15:56 Pacific
Reply:
Did you try looking at the linksys website? I think linsys uses Realtek chipset - look at the chip(s) on the card - if one says Realteck or RLTK or something it might work if you use the Realtek dev driver. But start on the Linksys website -
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Response Number 2
Name: TheWooky Date: February 19, 2002 at 11:23:51 Pacific
Reply:
TheWooky here again -
Try the tulip driver for the linksys cards. I was in error in my last post - Linksys does not use RLTK chipset...sorry - but tulip driver may work - looked on the website for linksys - that's what they are saying. Go to the linksys website and use their search box and enter "linux compat" that's what I did...
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