It was suggested to me that I get the latest stable kernel which would have
support for the 3c905b. Does anyone know which version that would be and
where I would get the source? Or how I could find this information?
Thanks,
Salman
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Salman Butt '03
Princeton University
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http://www.princeton.edu/~sbutt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Salman H Butt
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:27 PM
To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake
Subject: [newbie] 3c905b NIC drivers not installing
Hey,
First off, here's my system info:
AMD Ahtlon 550
Asus K7M Motherboard
Elsa Erazor X (Geforce 32MB SDR)
128MB RAM
Soundblaster live! value
3Com 3C905B NIC
I'm running Mandrake 7.2. Under Release of the KDE Configuration Panel, it
says 2.2.17-23mdk (which I suppose refers to the linux kernel).
I was trying to get onto my school's network through DHCP. I read through
some messages on the list and found out that Mandrake did not come with
drivers for the 3C905B. So, I went to 3Com's webpage and got the latest
drivers. I tried installing it, but when I did this, I got something like
"these drivers weren't made for this kernel. you will have to recompile
them". So using 3Com's readme.txt file, I tried compiling the 3c90x.c file
into an installable module. But then got a lot of errors. Any suggestions on
what I should do? Thanks a lot for the help.
Sincerely,
Salman
PS here is the compile command I used:
gcc -c
3c90x.c -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-red
uce -pipe -m486 -align-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=486
-DMODULE -D__KERNEL__
Thanks again.
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Salman Butt '03
Princeton University
http://www.princeton.edu/~sbutt
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