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timysemi
05-21-2001, 11:51 AM
I have installed RH 7.0 and it will not see the NIC that I have installed. I started with a 3Com 3c905b. It will not see it at all. I then tried a Linksys that I had laying around (I know hehehe). When I run ifconfig eth0 ip address it tells me that there is no such device. Does anyone have any suggestions as to another card I can use or possibly a way to configure either of these. I am new to Linux, but I am desperately trying to get away from Winblows. Thanx
FoBoT
05-21-2001, 12:24 PM
if you want to give the 3com 3c509b card another try (i use these in linux all the time), read this (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=004362) thread, perhaps the suggestions in it will help you get the 3c509b card working

welcome to LNO!
and please try to post 1 question in only one forum, thanks! :)
MaxWave
05-22-2001, 01:01 AM
There is a big difference between the 3c509 and the 3c905. If so, make sure you are loading the correct driver. I would suggest you run netconf and make sure that Basic Host Configuration shows 3c90x or 3c50x under the kernel module section. BTW, I have the same NIC card. Works fine under kernel 2.2.16. I can't get it working under kernel 2.4.4. Find Post here! (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=012055)
If I can help, let me know.
FoBoT
05-22-2001, 01:02 AM
:eek:
i swear that said 509
:eek:

MaxWave is right, these are totally different animals

crap i feel stoopid :(
timysemi
05-22-2001, 10:30 AM
I have used the DOS utility to configure the 3c509 NIC for the base address and the interrupt. I have put an entry into etc/modules.conf and have rebooted the PC. I have tried to use multiple combinations of base address and IRQ. Whenever t boots, I continue to get tat there is an error initializing eth0. These are the only steps I have done. It seems as though I am missing something major as everybody talks about recompiling the kernel and whatnot.
MaxWave
05-22-2001, 10:32 AM
I'm curious. What do you get if you type lsmod?
timysemi
05-22-2001, 10:36 AM
Module Size Used by

lockd 31176 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 52946 1 (autoclean [lockd]
agpgart 18600 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19052 0 (unused)
usbcore 42088 1 (usb-usci]