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Nigel wrote:Hi I have installed Fedora Core 1 and have the following problem:
The network card appears to have been detected (3c905) and is setup for our network correctly in every way I can think of.
I just tried to install a 3c905 (boomerang) on a machine last night. The card was working fine on a Windows machine. After installing it on a FC1 machine, the card would not transmit.
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Most of the 3Com cards have a preinstall program that MUST be run PRIOR to installing the card in the slot!
This merely sets up the "system/bios ?" for the bus mastering slot and associated IRQ to be set on the
card after it is inserted in the slot. What you have to do is:
1) Remove the eth0 setup in Fedora 2) Remove the ethernet card from the computer 3) Boot with a DOS boot disk - no config.sys or autoexec.bat 4) Run the utility - PREINSTALL.EXE and turn off the computer 5) Install the card in the slot and then re-boot into Fedora 6) Setup eth0
This works until you pull the card and put it into a different slot or computer.
If you don;t have the original setup disks, take a look at this link, pick your card, go to Documentation, Quick Guide, then Pre-install. Somewhere at the bottom of the page you can download the floppies (I don't recall which one, but I think it's disk1) and then you have to extract PREINSTALL.EXE.
http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/searchbyproduct.jsp?path=download&search=3c905Untitled1
We quit using these cards just for this reason. When you're assembling a bunch of systems it became a real
PITA and bottleneck.
Bob Jones
