On Wednesday 30 August 2006 00:55, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > fredex wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:20:38AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> 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. > > Yes, with most modern systems hot having ISA slots, support for ISA > cards is dieing. Then again, even if the card is supported, you do > need to know the i/o port and IRQ it is configured for. Or if it is > a P & P card, you have to install the ISA P & P tools. > > On the other hand, it looks like the 3c509 driver is still in the > source tree, so it may be a matter of building your own kernel if > you want to use the cards. (I have not looked to see if it is > included in the stock kernels.) > > Mikkel I have the PCI version which works fine with FC1,2,3, and 5 on this machine. 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 6c) All kernels, including the latest on FC5 give no problems, and the planetccrma kernels on the other FC5 install likewise. Nigel. > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
