According to Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro: While burning my CPU.
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> Hello guys.
>
> New to Linux and confused.
>
> I have an Ethernet card, a 3Com Etherlink III.
>
> Now, I did read Ethernet-How-To (dated July 6, 1998), however it
> makes no mention of this card (it mentions the Etherlink II).
>
> Would the info be the same?
Taken from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help (2.0.36)
3c509/3c579 support
CONFIG_EL3
If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to the 3Com
EtherLinkIII series, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available
via FTP (user: anonymous) in sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO.
If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt as well as
Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt. If you plan to use more
than one network card under Linux, read the
Multiple-Ethernet-mini-HOWTO, available from
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini. If your card is not
working you may need to use the DOS setup disk to disable Plug &
Play mode, and to select the default media type.
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> Also, can anyone give me any suggestions on installing it? Or any
> tips or info they know about it? It took me 8 hours to get an SMC
> to work on one of my PCs, and I would like to reduce that amount
> of time if possible ;-)
If you installed your system with the kernel modules then you should have
support for your card, type;
modprobe 3c509.o
If you get no return to stdout, then the card was found, now if the card has
an i/o or irq other than standard you will need to parse information about
it to 'modprobe' as an example;
modprobe 3c509.o io=0x300 irq=5
Check of course that you have the module first it resides in
/lib/modules/2.x.x/net
Where 2.x.x is your kernel version number.
Now you as a list member should have received my message about this very
subject which i sent to someelse and this list yesterday, that tells ou what
to do futher.
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> Staring at Red Hat (5.2) is like staring at DOS 2.0 when it first
> came out.
Thats you opinion.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Leandro
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Regards Richard.
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