Ethernet Card not detected

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 00:55, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> fredex wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:20:38AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Yes, with most modern systems hot having ISA slots, support for ISA
> cards is dieing. Then again, even if the card is supported, you do
> need to know the i/o port and IRQ it is configured for. Or if it is
> a P & P card, you have to install the ISA P & P tools.
>
> On the other hand, it looks like the 3c509 driver is still in the
> source tree, so it may be a matter of building your own kernel if
> you want to use the cards. (I have not looked to see if it is
> included in the stock kernels.)
>
> Mikkel


I have the PCI version which works fine with FC1,2,3, and 5 on this machine.

00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 
6c)

All kernels, including the latest on FC5 give no problems, and the planetccrma 
kernels on the other FC5 install likewise.

Nigel.


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