Open the box, pull out the modem and NIC, and write down the numbers on 
the chips.

With this knowledge, you should be able to install drivers.  LinkSys
makes pretty good parts, and I have never had any problems with the 
NICs - as long as I know what driver to use.  If it's an ISA card,
try the NE2000 driver.  If it's PCI, try NE2K-PCI (or something like
that).

If that doesn't work, use google and search the net for "linux
drivers linksys <your chipset number>"

If that doesn't work, try using "insmod <driver>"  where <driver>
is a list of everything in /lib/modules/<kernel>/net without the .o

In my experience with non 3Com cards, NE2000, NE2K-PCI and TULIP
fit most NICs.

The modem is another story.

George


Steven Martindale wrote:
> 
> Hurrah!
> 
> Finally got a working second computer assembled and now have sitting on
> this desk a system running Mandrake 7.1. Unfortunately as of yet it doesn't
> have a modem in it, or functioning networking (You know, you'd think if the
> box on the LinkSys kit said the cards would work with linux that the disk
> would actually have the drivers, or source for the drivers, not a simple
> text file saying, "Yeah, go out to that guys website and download a driver
> there.").
> 
> Hopefully sometime within the next couple of weeks I'll get the PC's in the
> apartment networked together, have the Linux box (hmm, have to find a good
> name for it) provide the net access and some space for the windows machines
> to back up to.
> 
> So, to save people time from answering questions later with FTFM! Does
> anyone have suggestions as to which sources of information I should start
> studying first?
> 
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