According to David A. Mason: While burning my CPU.
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> Dear Linux Folks,
>
> I am a new subscriber, so I apologize in advance if these questions have
> already been addressed.
>
> I've been trying to get RedHat 4.2 to cooperate with my PC, which has a
> 3c905B TX NIC and Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro (Turbo) display adapter (using
> S3 Virge).
>
> The netcard is not recognized when I select it for probing during
> installation.
If you use the stock kernel and modules from the Redhat 4.2 installation
then there should be support for your card, the module is called 3c509.o
and can be found in /lib/modules/2.0.30/net
Now if the above is true, then possably you will need to add some parameters
to modprobe to tell it to look at a certain address at bootime, this can be
done in /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10 # Example of course.
You can check to see if it all works on the command line using insmod or
modprobe with <options>
Check /usr/doc/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO.gz for more details.
Make sure /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is configured properly
and has an entry like;
ONBOOT=yes
Now if you have a custom compiled kernel make sure there is support for the
3c509 either in the kernel or as a module.
/usr/src/linux/.config will show whats in the presant kernel if you have not
removed it by doing a 'make distclean'.
If all of this misrably fails to help, then writing down the boot messages
about your NIC and posting them here "might" help some more. Even using
'dmesg' might show the messages.
>
> X-probeonly can't seem to communicate with the video card, either. I can
> only get a straight VGA16 display through it. (These components do function
> as expected using Win95 and BeOS.)
http://www.XFree86.org
You will possably need to update XFree, i had to for my S3 card using redhat
4.2.
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> Any ideas? Any updates?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> An aside: I just purchased the Linux Unleashed package with RedHat Linux
> 4.2, only to learn that 5.something has been out for a while. Do they have a
> free CD update offer, by any chance? I don't quite have the bandwidth...
>
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Regards Richard.
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