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I am trying to install Debian Linux on an old Compaq LTE Elite 4/40CX with 12 Megs of RAM and 880 MB hard disk. I bought a D-Link DFE-650TX network card at MicroCenter ($70 less $10 instant rebate and $30 mail-in rebate) to perform a network install. I normally use RH 6.1 but the RH install program identified the network card as an NE2000 Compatible with an irq of 3 when the actual irq was 11. I installed the 11 diskette 2.2.17-compact version of Debian but it also misidentified the card the same way as RH 6.1. I limited pcnet_cs to irq 11 and used ifconfig to assign a local IP address to the card and bring it up. I can ping the card but can not ping anywhere else on the network. The output of ifconfig for the card look correct and netstat -r shows the route to the local network through eth0. The problem may be that I need a later version of the pcmcia drivers. I saw in dejanews that the 3.1.15 version solved someone's problem. The version in Debian is 2.3.11. I download and installed the 2.3.14-3 package but the problem is the same. Does anyone have a version 3.1.15 (or later) debian package that I can install on my laptop. I don't have the compilers, etc. on the laptop to install it from source. -Frank - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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