On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tim Hicks wrote:
> First, my apologies for this off-topic post, but I know that this list is
> full of very knowledgable people, some of whom have wrestled with a 3com
> card and linux before. It's a tenuous link, but this box I'm talking about
> will actually be sitting behind a Dachstein box ;-)... does that almost drag
> it on-topic? It seems likely that this machine will end it's life (at some
> point) as a leaf box as well. But I digress...
>
> I have a Compaq Deskpro 2000 that I am trying to install RH7.2 onto. It has
> no CD drive, so I am attempting to do a network (http) install from my winME
> box running Apache (temporarily). I used the bootnet.img and I booted up
> the Deskpro. Unfortunately, when I'm asked to select the driver for my nic,
> no matter what I select, I get 'failed to insert 3c5x9
> module' (where 3c5x9 is the choice I made on the previous screen). The nic
> actually is a 3com 3c509b combo ISA card and I know it works as I took it
> straight out of a win98 box (working). I then disabled pnp and set irq=10
> io=0x300. The card passes all of its diagnostics. So what gives? Any
> clues from the linux gurus out there? Do I need to make a driver disk? If
> so, which driver to I need... the obvious one doesn't seem to work!
Never heard of "3c5x9"... "3c59x" is a compLETEly different nic... You
should have no trouble with "3c509" if you give it NO ARGUMENTS and have
no conflicting hardware in the box (which the diagnostics would indicate
you don't).
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