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Re: Network card problems....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Sat May 18 08:32:56 1996
To: "Steve Denton" <SteveDenton@msn.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 May 1996 20:52:28 GMT."
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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 13:12:05 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> I am trying to set up linux on a PC with a 3Com etherlink III card (3c590) - I
> have tried using several kernels (including idenet, aztech1), and have also
> recompiled the nothing seems to detect the card... anyone have any
> suggestions??
(You won't like this). Fire up a DOS boot disk, and run the 3C509 (guess
that's what you mean) test diskette (make sure you have the right version).
Configure it with sensible IRQ and IO addresses, and run the test which
seems to initialize an EEPROM or similar on the card. Then reboot into
linx, if necessary specifying the IO and IRQ addresses explicitly.
There may be an in-Linux way to do the above, but I don't know of it.
The above seems to work though.
Oh yes - make sure you have the right version of the diskette. 3Com have
changed it several times.
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
