[ale] NIC (fwd)

[Ben Phillips]

On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Mike Kachline wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Bill Ripley wrote:
> 
> > I want to install a network card in a RH 6.0 box. I can find plenty of
> > info on configuring existing cards but nothing on installing new ones.
> > Any direction would be appreciated.

[snip]

> 	To begin to answer your question though, the usual procedure for
> installing a new network card is to identify the card's type (3com,
> NE2000, etc), compile the driver for that card into your kernel (or as a
> module), then assign an IP address to the card.

Doesn't Red Hat by default leave lots of those sorts of modules laying
around just in case and load them when needed (using kerneld, I would
guess)?  I'm new to RH, so I'm asking. 

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