I used the PCI nic I made sure of it. RedHat 6.1 I could not get to
connect to the internet but Mandrake 7 did
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Art Richardson mewed:
> To everyone on the list
>
> First, I would like to thank everyone who replied to my post. You help was
> very much appreciated and I was able to solve two of my problems so far.
> Secondly, when I wrote that post I was frustrated about my inability to
> solve my problems. I like to consider myself somewhat technically proficient
> and can usually solve the problems that I have come across. However, this
> was in Windows and I guess that it's so dumbed down anyone can figure it
> out. Linux is not like that, as you all know. Several years ago I had a 133
> running Slackware. I never could get any form of x running but further
> experimentation was put on hold due to a divorce. I had read several
> articles complimentary to the Mandrake distribution. I went out and bought
> the 6.5 version and got everything going except the nic card. I was amazed
> that it went so well! But as hard as I tried, I could not get the blankety -
> blank nic card running. I checked 3Com and their documentation was oriented
> toward the PCI version and not the ISA version which I have. I tried the Don
> Becker page and really didn't understand it to well except it seemed to
> imply that I needed to add a driver and recompile the kernel.
> Not wanting to do that I thought that I would just upgrade to 7.0 and maybe
> that would cure my nic card problem. I have a cable connection and I
> downloaded the distribution from a Mandrake FTP mirror. After several tries
> to install it, I got it to install. Once again the install could not find
> the nic card. It was listed in the install configuration setup but no joy.
> This is when I went off the deep end and wrote my now infamous post. I got a
> lot of great information. To solve the logging out problem and the Draxconf
> not installed, I just reinstalled the distribution again and this time I
> used the expert mode. I set x not to start at login and Draxconf installed
> ok.
> You all know what is coming next. That's right, no nic card. So after
> visiting several newsgroups and re-reading the posts to this list I edited
> the /etc/conf.modules file. I added the line Options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=9
> I got the parameters from windows and again no joy. I am at the point where
> I am going to disable the PnP setting on the card. If this does not work I
> am going to check the supported cards at the Redhat site and get another
> card.
> Again, thanks for not flaming me too much. I'll let everyone know how it
> went
>
> Art
