Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hello Jonh, > I did it by getting the 3c59x.c file and just compiling it > using the compile line shown at the bottom of the file. > Then I copied the 3c59x.o file to /lib/modules//net/3c59x.o > (copying original out of way) > and rebooting. thanks for your prompt reply. As I mentioned to Thoma

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Dear Thomas, > Well, get the kernel-source package aswell as the kernel-package. Install > both, then go to /usr/src/linux/drivers/net and replace the file 3c59x.c > with the patched version you obtained from Donald Becker's page. In > /usr/src/linux, do a make menuconfig to run the kernel config

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hello again, I am still somewhat confused on how I actually go about installing the 3c90x.c driver... I would appreciate some help/tips or alternatively, pointers to FAQs etc where I can find more info regarding this. I have just installed Debian 1.3. I got the Rescue and Device driver's disket

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Dear Jim, Thanks alot for your help. I just have another question... when I was installing Debian (latest version 1.3) I did noticed that they do have a module (NET) that supports 3C59x. Since this is a recent release of Debian why isn't there a more recent copy of the driver made available in t

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread Jim Pick
> I did notice some references on the web (to some NASA site) where they > have apparantly a driver for the boomerang (as they call the 3C905-TX) > card but I don't really know how I can go about installing it? It's easy - you just replace the /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c with Donald Beck