NIC problem

Well

Thanks guys for ur responses i think i would replace it by a well
Known one it's better

Well once I get off work I will have a look around and see what I can dig up. It was pretty easy to fix the problem in Gentoo so it shouldn't be too hard in Mandrake. Have you done a search on Mandrake's forums?

hey don't surrender so easily aminos, chances are that it is supported! The result of "lspci |grep Ethernet" should return the NIC manufacturer and chip. Then you can proceed in compiling a kernel with that driver or compiling just the driver module. As mentioned, just download the kernel source, extract it, cd to it's dir, then issue "make menuconfig", browse down to the "Device Drivers", "Networking Support", "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)" section and you should get a list with all officially supported NICs. You can get more detailed info on each one (such as the complete supported model list) by issuing a "?" character for each item of the menu. If you need help with the details you can always ask here, but there's not much to it once you understand how it works. Check Kernel Rebuild Guide first.

Thanks nske,
well actually, i found a last in the NIC box that my card name is TAMARAK so i made # make xconfig in order to check if it's supported
unfortunally it's not listed in the kernel, so i tried to find a compatible
NIC card driver,anyways thanks for your help it's great to hear from you

If its an Intel chipset, it will definetely feature somewhere in the kernel config. I'm surprised its not already loaded it. Have you tried a distro with good hardware support ? Try Ubuntu or the Knoppix LiveCD and see if they detect it, I'm sure they will.

Sorry,

I miselead you guys, actually when i make
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# lspci | grep Ethernet
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whai I get is :
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MYSON technology inc : Unknown device 0803
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so i don't think it's intel compatible
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