Installing a network card

Submitted by Complete on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 20:03. Network Cards
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I am running Mepis on an old laptop that once had Windows 95. When I bought the laptop, it came with a modem card and an ethernet card. But I lost what I understand is called a "dongle" the wire that connects the ethernet card to a network cable.

So I ventured down to Fry's Electronics and I was convinced to go ahead and just by a brand new Ethernet card. I bought a D-Link DFE-690T. It did not work. And it came with an installation CD and an instruction manual that stated that the requirements are to be run on either a Mac or a Windows OS.

What do I do?

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Ndiswrapper often works with wired ethernet

Submitted by mdmarmer on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 20:10.
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Ndiswrapper often works with wired ethernet as well as wireless. Copy all your windows drivers to a folder and try it out
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Using_Ndiswrapper

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This will be tricky since I

Submitted by Complete on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 20:29.
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This will be tricky since I cannot get online on the computer I need to use it on. But I will be trying.

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Probably you can unzip the

Submitted by mdmarmer on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 08:31.
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Probably you can unzip the Windows drivers from your CD even if they are in a .exe file from the konsole with
unzip -a

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Installing a network card

Ndiswrapper often works with wired ethernet

This will be tricky since I

Probably you can unzip the

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