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Re: Netword card problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Fri Jan 5 19:58:27 2001
Message-Id: <200101060057.TAA31038@surveyor.mit.edu>
To: Dimitrios V Rovas <rovas@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, sly@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:44:00 EST."
<200101060044.TAA14080@mint-square.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:57:49 -0500
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Hi there. The reason the card is recognized is because
the kernel knows about the 3c905c and has a 3c90x module
to deal with it. Unfortunately for some reason redhat
neglected to put this module on the install floppy. As
I mentioned previously the changes between the 905b and
905c were drastic enough that the 3c59x driver wlil work
with the 905b, but not the 905c. We have some people
working on putting the 90x module into the install
floppy. We'll let you know once we get it done.
(Basically if you have another network card that you
could use to run the install, you could run the install
with it and then swap your 3c905c in and things would work
just fine. Unfortunately the installer doesn't currently
support the 905c.)
People are working on it now, so hopefully we'll have
something tonight or tomorrow.
--Angie
>Hi Angie,
>
>The working card is also a 3c905c. But I'm not using the standard
>linux - athena there. Instead it's the debian potato distribution
>and the drivers obtained from 3com web site... We had to recompile
>the kernel(add a module) to make the network card work...
>
>What is strange though is that the linux - athena installer seems
>to recognize the 3c905c (from the kernel messages on the installation
>screen)... I get from the kernel the type of the card, the irq,
>the MAC address (these are matching with the information given on
>the Windows side, which is working correctly) and a message saying :
>found suggestion of 3c59x
>found 3c59x device
>going to insmod 3c59x.o (path is NULL)
>
>
>Thanks,
>Dimitris
>
