Re: Ethernet Card not detected

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Smith, Herb wrote:
> All, 
> 
> I successfully helped my son get FC5 running on one of his machines
> yesterday (Intel Celeron, 256MB Ram).  It seems to be mostly fine except
> that it did not recognize the 3Com Etherlink III card (it is fairly old,
> but I don't know if that basic technology has changed or not).  When I
> go to Network Device Control, there is no device indicated.  
> 
> Is there a log from the boot process that I can check to see if an error
> was encountered in the detection process? 
> Is there a tool to detect and/or test the ethernet card? 
> I just need some idea where to start debugging what the issues are.
> Although not a complete bonehead, I'm a pretty big newbie when it comes
> to this network stuff, so any info would be helpful.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Herb Smith
> 
What version of the Etherlink III card do you have? If it is an ISA
card, chances are it will not be detected automatically. If it is a
PCI card, it should show up with lspci.

Mikkel
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for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!


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