[plug] Network Card (WDC)

[Craig Foster]

Western Digital did quite a range of eth cards in it's heyday. The classic
one was the WD8003, which (rumour has it) was optimised for LANtastic.

A good test it to look at the FCC ID and go to
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/. eg I have a scsi card with "FCC ID
KQ53181A-1" written on it. KQ5 signifies Domex make the card, and 3181A is
the specific device, which happens to be a 3181A scsi card (although they
don't usually match that closly).

Otherwise use www.google.com to search for the chip part number, eg a
quick search for DM9101F brings up a link on the D-Link website for the
DFE-530TX, which should be able to use the same module.

Lastly, physically install the card in your linux box, and when ready, su
to root and run "lspci".
This provides a list of PCI attributes, and in a large amount of cases, it
will have a description of the card and what it's main function is. This
is similar to checking the list of PnP/PCI devices that sometimes pops up
under the BIOS info when most motherboards start up, and the OS hasn't
loaded yet.

Once you have the information on which card it is, look for a module named
similar to the product name, or e-mail us again.

Regards,

Craig Foster

PS This is covered in a whole bunch of how-to's, but the e-mail would
still be as long :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trent Lloyd [mailto:trentlloyd at iprimus.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, 23 December 2001 12:09 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Network Card (WDC)
>
>
> I have a network Card the most prominet thing i see is
> 'WDC' anyone know
> what it is and what drivers to use (in linux of course)?
>
> thanks
> - Trent Lloyd
>
>
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