On 08Jan2012 17:05, Donald <tambeaud@personainternet.com> wrote:
| I am running Centos 5.5.3 on a Dell XPS M1210 laptop. This computer has
| only one Network port and I want to install a USB Ethernet adapter to give
| me an extra network connector. I have several of these little adapters,
| some with driver disk that claim to be Linux compatible. Being new to
| Linux, I can't get the computer to look for a driver on the DVD drive.
| Can somebody give me a few hints.
I would start by ignoring the driver disks. The linux kernel has support
for many adapters and I would expect the Centos kernel build to include
a lot of them.
So:
plug in USB adaptor
see if something new shows up in "/sbin/ifconfig -a"
see if "dmesg | tail -100" shows the adapter getting noticed
Let us know what transpires.
Cheers,
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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> DoD#743
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