Power up your system. 5. If Red Hat
Power up your system. 5. If Red Hat Linux is not installed yet, install the software and reboot (as instructed.) See the discussion on adding Ethernet during Red Hat installation for information on how to answer Ethernet-related questions and the section on configuring host computers for information on adding TCP/IP host names and IP addresses. When the system comes up, your Ethernet card and interface (eth0) should be ready to use. See the section Checking Your Ethernet Connection later in this chapter to learn how to check if your Ethernet connection is working. Choosing an Ethernet card Support for many Ethernet cards is available in Red Hat Linux. If you are adding Red Hat Linux to a computer that already has an Ethernet card installed, you can check the list of supported cards or you can just go ahead and install Red Hat. Red Hat Linux may detect the board automatically. If you have a laptop computer that uses a PCMCIA Ethernet card, the card will probably be detected when you boot your computer. To find out what Ethernet cards are supported, refer to the descriptions of supported networking hardware in the /usr/src/linux*/Documentation/networking directory. To see these descriptions, you need to have the kernel-source package installed. Recommended Ethernet cards The Ethernet-HOWTO recommends the following Ethernet cards as being mature and well-tested in Red Hat Linux. If you want to use one of the cards, you just have to make sure that you have the type of card slot in your computer that the card requires. Here are cards for 16-bit ISA and PCI slots: Recommended 16-Bit ISA Cards: SMC-Ultra/EtherEZ SMC-Elite (WD80×3) 3c509 Lance NE2000 Recommended PCI Cards: 3Com Vortex/Boomerang (3c59x/3c9xx) DEC Tulip (21xxx)
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