Ethernet Card not detected

[fredex]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:20:38AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Smith, Herb wrote:
> > All, 
> > 
> > I successfully helped my son get FC5 running on one of his machines
> > yesterday (Intel Celeron, 256MB Ram).  It seems to be mostly fine except
> > that it did not recognize the 3Com Etherlink III card (it is fairly old,
> > but I don't know if that basic technology has changed or not).  When I
> > go to Network Device Control, there is no device indicated.  
> > 
> > Is there a log from the boot process that I can check to see if an error
> > was encountered in the detection process? 
> > Is there a tool to detect and/or test the ethernet card? 
> > I just need some idea where to start debugging what the issues are.
> > Although not a complete bonehead, I'm a pretty big newbie when it comes
> > to this network stuff, so any info would be helpful.
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > Herb Smith
> > 
> What version of the Etherlink III card do you have? If it is an ISA
> card, chances are it will not be detected automatically. If it is a
> PCI card, it should show up with lspci.

Yeah, I've been bitten by that too. I've had to swap out a pile of
perfectly good 3com 3c509b-tpo cards simply because the driver for it is
no longer built in modern distributions' kernels.

> 
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