[3422] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Installing Athena RedHat6.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sun Apr 1 18:55:07 2001
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, Madleina C Scheidegger <mscheid@MIT.EDU>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Apr 2001 18:55:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: Camilla R Fox's message of "Sun, 01 Apr 2001 17:43:14 -0400"
Message-ID: <sjmwv94nsc9.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
No, the problem was with the 3c905c, not b. The b's always worked.
-derek
Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > In what way did it autodetect incorrectly? The 3c905B should be fully
> > supported. What happened?
>
> I diagnosed it as autodetecting incorrectly; the symptom was that it
> never asked her which driver to use, but never got on the network, either
> ("NFS server not responding"). She had the machine on the network just
> fine when she booted to the old install, so it's not a drop/cable problem.
>
> We've had this problem before with 3c905b's; seph (and several other
> people) had been working on a solution, but I think it got dropped again.
>
> Yes, it's supported, but there's two possible drivers that could be used,
> and one of them doesn't work with all revisions of 3c905b's.
>
> -Camilla
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