Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
I found what my problem was, when installing the module, I choose options=3 (for 10bt-NBC), while I had to choose 0 for 10bt. I need some sleep :). Thanks for your (and all the others') help, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > > > > > > > You ne

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Marsh Ray
My experience was that: 3Com is now selling the 3c905B card. Notice the "B". Drivers for this appeared in the 2.0.34 kernel. The boot-floppies I used had 2.0.33. - Marsh -Original Message- From: Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-testing@lists.debian.org ; Debian Mailing L

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Greg Johns
Another thing to watch out for is the AutoSelect of the interface. You might be better off selecting 10mbit for the installation then tweaking it later on. The 3Com's especially have troubles negotiating with Bay Networks switches. Liran Zvibel sez: >On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > >> > >>

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > > > > You need to mount whatever directory (read: file system) you were mounting > > on the RedHat system. If you are mounting it as root (which - I think - is > > the only way you /can/ mount a fs), then it doesn't matter where you mount > > it on your local system. The preferred place is /

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > > > BTW: When I get it to work (And it will work today, whether the machine > > wants to or not), what is the directory to mount? (/dists, > > /dists/hamm, /dists/hamm/hamm, /dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386 , any other > > locatoin?) - just to save my time... > >

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > > > I forgot to mension it before, but the reply I get is: > > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out > > > > Can you help? > > Liran. > > --- > > http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ > > > > It sounds as if the problem is not with your modem, but with the nfs server.

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > BTW: When I get it to work (And it will work today, whether the machine > wants to or not), what is the directory to mount? (/dists, > /dists/hamm, /dists/hamm/hamm, /dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386 , any other > locatoin?) - just to save my time... > You need to mount whatever directory (read: f

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : I forgot to mension it before, but the reply I get is: > : mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out > > Aha - so the NIC works, but trying to mount an NFS share on that machine > does not. > > Is the NFS server running Debian? Some BSD NF

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > > > I forgot to mension it before, but the reply I get is: > > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out > > It sounds as if the problem is not with your modem, but with the nfs server. > I've had that error when the file system I have been trying to

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : : > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : > : > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: : > > > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for : > > > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. : > > I tr

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > I forgot to mension it before, but the reply I get is: > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out > > Can you help? > Liran. > --- > http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ > It sounds as if the problem is not with your modem, but with the nfs server. I've had that error when the file s

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for > > > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. > > I tried doing that, and it didn't work. > > I'll try again, a

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for > > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. > I tried doing that, and it didn't work. > I'll try again, and maybe I'll have more luck (and check that there is no

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. I tried doing that, and it didn't work. I'll try again, and maybe I'll have more luck (and check that there is no problem with the NFS server...) > > I've been using

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > The problem is that the installation floppies (the drv1440, I mean) > doesn't have 3com 90x PCI drivers, and I can't work. (I'm writing this > from my other computer that has RedHat (that will hopefully become > Debian as soon as I can get it to work with the network card)). > What you need t