On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:20:38AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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. Yeah, I've been bitten by that too. I've had to swap out a pile of perfectly good 3com 3c509b-tpo cards simply because the driver for it is no longer built in modern distributions' kernels. > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------
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