On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:58:34PM +0100, Lorint Hendschel wrote: | Hi, | | I am a 1st time Debian user. I installed slink on a machine successfully but I
slink is old. Can you upgrade? (You will probably enjoy a newer up-to-date system more than an obsolete one) | have problems setting up my home network. I have a 3com ISA 3C509 card. When | I try to ping a machine on my network, ping just sits there with no output | (except when I ping the Debian machine itself). When I stop it, I am told that How do you ping the Debian machine? (It might be using the loopback "device" instead of eth0) | all packets were lost. | | lsmod shows that the 3c509 module is loaded. | Do you have the right base address, IRQ, DMA, etc. configured? If you have windows installed (and the card works in it) check it's control panel to find out what IRQ, DMA, and base address it uses. Then try that with Debian. I don't have a 3Com card, but my card uses IRQ 11. HTH, -D
