From: rob <rob.rice@fuse.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3Com NIC Driver?
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:36:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B689AA.3070908@fuse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040526143311.GA790@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org>
are you sure that you have the ports,irq,dma,mem settings right ?
have you tryed isapnpdump yet to get the settings for this card?
If you have windblows on this computer you could check the settings
with windblows device manager
are you useing insmod or modprobe ? (try modprobe)
Hal MacArgle wrote:
>Greetings: I made the, probable, mistake of buying a 3Com 3C900B-TPC
>PCI BNC NIC discovering that the module automatically installed by
>Slackware 9.0, 2.4.20 - 3c59x.o - does not ping.. Checking the Web I
>find that 3c59x.o is for the 3C900 (no suffix) models and that I may
>need 3c90x.o instead..
>
>Downloaded the source for that but it wont compile under Slack9.0..
>An attempt to -f (force) using a pre-compiled version didn't work
>either..
>
>I may be stuck but was wondering if someone may have run into this
>and solved the problem, and/or has a module compiled for 2.4.20..
>
>Rather than go into further details of what I did, suffice it to say
>that I swapped a RealTec NIC into the same PCI slot, and it worked
>perfectly with the ifconfig and route add entries, so I must presume
>the cables, etc are OK.. dmesg listed the 3Com NIC, with the same
>IRQ# and Port# that were assigned to the RealTec NIC..
>
>Appreciate and TIA.
>
> Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
>
> Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
> only a genius can truly simplify..
>.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-28 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-26 14:33 3Com NIC Driver? Hal MacArgle
2004-05-28 0:36 ` rob [this message]
2004-05-28 5:56 ` pa3gcu
2004-05-29 18:38 ` Hal MacArgle
2004-05-29 19:20 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-05-30 12:04 ` Hal MacArgle
2004-06-13 12:16 ` pa3gcu
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