Just dandy. With the help of Heikki Vatiainen I was able to get my 3com905c NIC working. Yea!
With the help of others on the web (names not in front of me at the moment) I was able to get my Rage128-based video card working. Yea! But! Apparently the 3com905c requires a 2.0.x kernel, and won't work with the 2.2.x version. The Rage128 video card, not being supported yet by Xfree86, can only work with the frame buffer method, which apparently requires a 2.2.x kernel. You see the problem? I can boot into a 2.0.36 system and use the network. Or I can boot into a 2.2.9 system and use the X Window System. But I can't use both the NIC anc X at the same time. Bummer. Any suggestions? (Besides swapping out hardware or waiting till one or the other is properly supported.) I thought I could just reapply the patched 3c905 driver code to the 2.2 kernel, but nope. Apparently the driver has undergone quite a bit of change, and I can't make heads or tails out of the new driver code; I didn't understand the 2.0 code either, but Heikki gave me enough info to muddle through and get it patched; but that info doesn't apply to the new code. TIA!
