[3248] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Netword card problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Coventry)
Fri Jan 5 19:31:56 2001
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:27:08 -0500
Message-Id: <200101060027.TAA03722@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
From: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
To: rovas@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <01010519202503.00479@fluids52> (message from Dimitrios Rovas on
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:20:25 -0500)
Hi, Dimitrios.
Sorry, I have no more ideas at the moment. I'm going home, now. I'll
have a look again tomorrow morning, though. I've Cc'd linux-dev on
this, as there are folks listening there with a much better idea about
this sort of problem than I.
See you.
Alex.
> From: Dimitrios Rovas <rovas@MIT.EDU>
> Reply-To: rovas@MIT.EDU
> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:20:25 -0500
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> To: alex_c@mit.edu
> Subject: Netword card problems
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> we talked a little ago about a problem with a network card (3c905C) on
> linux - athena with the sipb installer. I tried changing cards and it
> doesn't work. I get the same behaviour. I noticed that 3com, provides
> linux drivers for that particular network card (instead of the default
> ones by donald becker, which is also supposed to work but...)... The
> problem is that the kernel image is compiled with the other
> drivers... ( I remember that for the working machines we have in our
> lab we had to use those drivers)...
>
> Any ideas on what to do?
>
> Thanks for your help....
> Dimitris
