[Techtalk] Install not picking up NIC

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Hamster wrote:
> The first thing you need to do is find out what nic you have in the machine,

And a tip for everyone: the lspci command can help out a lot when you
can't tell what type of card you have physically. Eg on my system lspci
has these lines:

00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: NVidia / SGS Thomson (Joint Venture)
Riva128 (rev 10)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 02)

And so I see that I have a Riva128 video card and an Ethernet Pro ethernet
card. Even if the output is terse, a quick Google can usually find a more
managable name, which should then help with finding the right module.

-- Carlo