Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
the driver by 3com isn´t good. try the vortex driver, it works very fine here. (but i´m useing kernel 2.4.*). andreas

RE: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Mark S
If that doesn't work, you could try 'alias eth0 3c59x' -Original Message- From: Michael Marziani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:40 PM To: 'Randall Hansen'; 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: RE: [debian-users] 3Com 3c

Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread alburrow
Hi, Regarding your NIC woes: > I'm trying to get my 3Com 3c900B-TPO working under Debian 2.2.18pre21. > Here's what I've tried, and what I know, or think I know :P > > - Debian installer didn't detect the card. > - The card's not detected by Debian at boot (I found no 'eth0' in dmesg) > - 'i

Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Tony Crawford
Randall Hansen wrote (on 19 Apr 2001, at 8:30): > Hello folks ~ > > I'm trying to get my 3Com 3c900B-TPO working under Debian 2.2.18pre21. > Here's what I've tried, and what I know, or think I know :P "The" site to read about the 3com cards is Donald Becker's http://www.scyld.com/network/ I se

RE: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Michael Marziani
I'm not sure how linuxconf works on debian (I actually hadn't used it since I switched from redhat). I'm still learning about the whole Debian subculture, but I think the "Debian way" is to just edit the files directly. As I've begun to do that more I feel like I understand the system a lot better

Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Randall Hansen wrote: > I'm trying to get my 3Com 3c900B-TPO working under Debian 2.2.18pre21. [snip] I suppose that all that errors with 3Com 90x cards under Debian 2.2 are because of version of the driver it uses. The source file 3c59x.c of module 3c59x was last edited in 1

Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Jason Healy
At 987687039s since epoch (04/19/01 11:30:39 -0400 UTC), Randall Hansen wrote: > I'm trying to get my 3Com 3c900B-TPO working under Debian 2.2.18pre21. > Here's what I've tried, and what I know, or think I know :P I have had trouble getting Linux (of all flavors) to find my 3Com cards at times.