On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:43:12 +0000, Paul Ingram wrote:

> My computer has Vector 5.0 SOHO installed as the OS which I understand
> is a lot like Slack. I have 3 NIC's show up during the installation
> process of XP or Mandrake.

Why do you have 3 NIC's in it?

> one is a Realtek and the other is a D-Link which I use to connect to the
> Internet. The 3rd is almost like a phantom NIC or something because you
> can physically look on the back of my box and there is only the 2 NIC
> cards, there is no onboard card unless the plate on the back is covering
> it or something.

We can't see it from here. You'll have to open the box and find out. It
wouldn't hurt to look through the BIOS settings too, to see if there is an
onboard NIC or not.

> when I install Vec for some reason the D-Link isn't showing as
> installed. It took a while to figure this out because in VL, using VASM,
> the cards just show as eth0 and eth1, but don't tell me what they
> actually are.

The commands "lspci" and/or "lsmod" may shed some light on that. Sounds
to me like you don't have the module (driver) loaded for the D-Link.
Another command which may help is: dmesg | grep -i eth

> I installed Mandrake Linux it picked up on all 3 mentioned above with no
> problem and actually listed the make and model of the NIC's which was
> very helpful to me to determine what was installed.

So what was the make/model of the mysterious 3rd NIC?

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