network card

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

First, 
I know that you have a Netgear PCI card and a 3Com ISA card. 
Use the dmesg command to find out if your kernel has recognized both cards.
Make sure both cards are supported.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/
3Com 3c501 - `avoid like the plague'' (3c501 driver)
     3Com 3c503 (3c503 driver), 3c505 (3c505 driver), 3c507 (3c507 driver), 
3c509/3c509B (ISA) / 3c579 (EISA)
     3Com Etherlink III Vortex Ethercards (3c590, 3c592, 3c595, 3c597) 
(PCI), 3Com Etherlink XL Boomerang (3c900, 3c905) (PCI) and Cyclone
     (3c905B, 3c980) Ethercards (3c59x driver) and 3Com Fast EtherLink 
Ethercard (3c515) (ISA) (3c515 driver)

You should have the drivers installed for both your PCI and your ISA card. 
Consult the Net howto. There is also a Networking overview
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html

On Linux, drivers can be loaded as modules. Once you have found that the 
kernel has recognized the cards on startup (actually when transitioning to 
multi-user mode), then you should be able to assign the appropriate IP 
addresses or DHCP to the cards using Linuxconf or netconfig.


Abhishake Pathak wrote:
> I'm new at the whole linx thing.  I'm running redhat 7
> and i don't know how to configure (see whether redhat
> recognized) my network card. I have two network cards
> installed.  How do i check if they are installed and
> configure them?
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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