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At 12:40 PM 3/1/01 -0600, you wrote:
>My brother has an HP Pavillion and he installed Mandrake. It appears that
>he can't get connected to the network in his dorm room using the default
>installation of Mandrake. Can he check what kind of ethernet card he has
>without opening up his computer? Thanks a bunch.
>
>--markemmanuel
If the NIC is being recognized by the OS during boot, then there will be an
entry in the file dmesg starting with "eth0:" that should give you some
useful information. On debian it is found in /var/log/, which can only be
accessed as root. If you have booted the system recently and you don't
have root access, you can just run the command "dmesg | less" and you
should see it towards the end. Of course, if the card is not being
recognized at boot time, then there won't be any entry at all for that
"eth" number.
Mike K
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