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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Network Hardware Options

The Network Device Support kernel menu contains options related to network hardware. The most important of these options are drivers for specific network cards. The most common types of network cards today are Ethernet devices, but others include traditional local network hardware, long-distance devices, and wireless devices. PC Card devices (for notebook computers) have their own submenu off of the Network Device Support menu. You also select dial-up devices (used to establish connections over telephone modems and some other types of hardware) here.

Most of these devices require that you select the Network Device Support option at the top of the Network Device Support menu. If you fail to do this, other options won't be available.

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