As far as the "Network Device Support" section goes: [*] Network Device Support ... [*] Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) ... [*] 3COM cards ... <*> 3c590/3c900 series...
That's all you need from that section to get a card in that series to work. Under BIOS, I have my PCI slot assigned to a particular IRQ. # cat /proc/interrupts ... 9: 320 XT-PIC eth0 ... # cat /proc/ioports ... e400-e47f : 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] e400-e47f : 00:0b.0 ... # cat /proc/pci Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 48). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=80. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe47f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed000000 [0xed00007f]. That's what's going on on my system on said NIC. You aren't sharing any resources with some other hardware by some chance are you? Does /var/log/messages or dmesg say anything useful? -Statux On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Clifford Thurber wrote: > I am still confused as to why the interface would not be brought up when I > build a monolithic kernel and configure support for all 3Com cards? Any > ideas? Also doens't "depmod -av" get run during the boot sequence? Thanks > again for your input. > > Cliff > > At 05:42 PM 2/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >When you can do it manually but not at boot time, you are usually missing > >a dependency or two (things that haven't loaded by the time the interface > >is being brought up). Usually, in this case, you can bump the interface > >activation down the line a little (requires some editing of symlinks in > >/etc/rc.d). > > > >I have a 3c905B PCI NIC (good card). I have support for it built into the > >kernel (I like to build as much into the kernel as possible to reduce some > >overhead and modules get a little confusing to load and whatnot). Like all > >PCI cards, its settings are set in BIOS (IRQ and whatnot) and when the > >kernel loads, it probes the card for everything else. One.. Two.. Three :) > > > >-Statux > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Redhat-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- -Statux _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list