First my kernel is 2.0.36 and my nic card is a 3com EtherLink III 509b pnp which is used by my schools linux machines and they have found no problems, the only advice they gave me was to update my kernel to the latest release which they have already done so. In the installation I only saw the 3com509 so that is what I chose.
As for the questions posed by Ray, my ifconfig looks perfectly fine and since my card hasn't crashed yet, the message log looks fine. For JH, I don't use DHCP, I got my own IP from my system administrator which which I can use to telnet into my machine from down the hall of my dorm, when my comp works right. For Richard's questions, the easiest answer is it works completely fine, then never works again till I've reinstalled, I've let the problem go for days with no resolve. As for module or not, in my conf.module file it only says alias eth0 3c509 which I guess means it is a module.
Lastly I did find a problem brought up by Ray and Richard. When I look at my card's IRQ in windows, it is set to IRQ 3. Linux says its on ten when I look at /proc/interrupts as well as /proc/net/dev. Windows tells me these are inuse by USB, my IRQ holder (?), and for SCI IRQ. My knowledge of hardware is not my best, but if that means scisi, I have no devices of that nature. Now that I see this IRQ. The only device I saw on under linux was my ethernet card. Now that I guess thats the problem, how do I change it. Can I do just by editing certain files?
Thankyou so much, I might not be able to read your replies for almost a week as I leave for spring break on Friday (ironic as it is snowing this moment). But thankyou so much and I will definately thank you once I return.
Thanks,
Tom
P.S. When I checked my interrupts it also said on 13, math error. I have an AMD K6-2 and see no errors or conflicts under windows.
