[3249] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Netword card problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Fri Jan 5 19:32:07 2001
Message-Id: <200101060030.TAA30969@surveyor.mit.edu>
To: rovas@MIT.EDU
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:27:08 EST."
<200101060027.TAA03722@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:30:54 -0500
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Hi there. What kind of card did you swap into your machine?
We explored this a bit while you were experiencing the
problem and discovered that the driver on the install disk
is the 3c59x driver which should support the 3c905b card
but not the 3c509c card because there were some drastic
changes between the two revisions of the card. I believe
it was mentioned that you had another machine with a network
card that did work for the install previously. Was this
the card that you attempted to swap in?
--Angie
>
>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
>
