Help, Im a linux newbie
 

Hi, ive posted here before, many months ago, and have another question.


I finally set up my first decent linux computer - it is an hp pavilion 6330. I replaced the 4g hdd with a 6g, and installed redhat 9. It has a belkin fsd-5000 network card, a 300mhz amd processor, and 48mb of ram.


The problem is it doesn't see my network card, nor the onboard sound card. How do i set this all up?


Also, how do i set it up to allow connection to win98se and 2k pro?


thanks!

-Mike

I'd call that crappy compared to the standards for todays computers, but then again those standards are made because windows wastes so many resources they just need faster and better stuff......so sad. As long as you don't use kde or gnome I guess you could call that decent:)

anyways, you have two options, a kernel recompile (I'm suprised that you could boot the kernel for redhat 9 with that much memory, I tried on a sweet 133mhz pentium w/ 48 ram and it wouldn't go.) For this you can follow the instructions in the linux-general forum under kernel recompile guide for newbs and in the make menuconfig step you need to look for your card. If you can find the CHIPSET of it then you're good. The name of the card is usually useless, you just need the chipset of it which you may have to get off of the card itself.

Another option is to look in your modules for the card but if it didn't detect it the first time I doubt it would now.

Well, I am running KDE (or GNOME, i forgot which is the default), and it runs just fine. The only message about ram i got was during setup, it needed to create the swap partition of the drive early so it had room to install. But anyway, i don't really care about the soundcard that much. But if I could get it working, that would be great. It isn't an add on card, it is on the mobo.

about the network card, i remember looking at the insturuction manual for it, and it said where to get linux drivers. I don't know where the manual is, and there is no linux driver at http://web.belkin.com/support/downlo...0&lang=1&mode=

There is a toll-free # on the box for support.

Thanks again, Mike

2 more things, 1st here is my pc specs:
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/documen...6&cat=prodinfo

Second, i found this at belkin.com is it what i need?

http://web.belkin.com/support/kb/kb.asp?a=1512&langid=1

Sorry about not replying sooner.
Anyways, that is not what you need because it is for wireless lan and as far as I can tell nothing is for real NIC cards.

Your card might not be supported at all, luckily it will only cost you about 6 dollars to get a cheap via rhyne III one. (airlink stuff is pretty cheap)

please read this befor posting next time. You'll find youll get more help faster
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=72