> When installing Linux on a Micron Pentium machine today, I couldn't get
> the RH installer to 'wake-up' the ethernet card, a 3COM 3C590 PCI
> EtherLink III. I mean, it found the card, recognized it, but the card
> wouldn't wake up. Like, whenever you turn on a machine with a card that
> wakes up immidately, the hub LED comes on. As it does whenever I turn
> on other boxes I have with ISA cards. What's up with that?
If I understand the situation with 3Com cards correctly, they change quite
frequently, even among the same model.
So, my suggestion is to go to Donald Becker's site, and download his
latest driver, and recompile your kernel.
You can find Donald Becker's site (the guy from NASA, who wrote
practically all of our network drivers...) at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
See the Ethernet-HOWTO for more information, as well as the Kernel-HOWTO
for tips on compiling the kernel. Updating the driver simply consists of
dropping in a replacement source file, and recompiling.
> I also noticed the darn thing doesn't turn on the hub light under
> Windows NT (yuck) until *after* it gives you the old "press ctl-alt-del
> to log in".
A `Certified NT Trainer' told me that M$ speeded up (correct english?) the
boot process, because people perceived it to be slow. So, not everything
is running by the time you get the login prompt.
> Is there a way to get this thing up and running in a timely fashion?
> Since I don't have the CD at work, I planned on installing over the
> network -- difficult to do without an alert card. Any ideas?
The updated 3Com driver is probably 30k or so. If you have to add the
downloading of the kernel source to that, just in case, it may add another
few megs..
Dave
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