On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:22:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Shapiro) wrote: > I aplologize for contacting you directly, I have lost the list address. > Also, I need to resubscribe to the list. If you can provide the address, I > will take care of it.
The Newbie list address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can subscribe at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3. > The card is a 3Com PCI 3C905B TX. It shares irq 9 with an NCR (symbios) > SCSI 53C810 card (at least it does in OS/2). The card itself should work fine, but sharing IRQs is a bad idea. Try going into your BIOS setup and setting PnP OS to 'no'. Also, some motherboards don't like you using a network card on the PCI slot next to the AGP slot. In that case you may need to move your card. > During linux boot the message is "Detecting IP information for eth0 - > failed." In the Linux configuration panel, it says: > > Interface eth0 > Protocol DHCP > Driver 3c59x > State Down > Status Not connected > > I went thru the connection wizard, but it stayed disconnected. > > Please let me know if you have any suggestions, or if you need more > information. > > Thank you, > Sandy Shapiro > > >On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:39:37 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Shapiro) > >wrote: > Hi -- I installed Mandrake 8.1 on two different computers. On > >one, > everything installed normally. On the other, the network interface > >card in > not recognized. This is curious because when I had Mandrake > >8.0, it > recognized the NIC without difficulty. > >> > >> When I go into the configure program, it installs all the packages, but > >> then says the card is not installed. With another utility, it says the > >> card is installed but not active. > >> > >> My question is: is there some way to force Mandrake to activate the card? > >> > >> Do you need more information? > >> > >> Thanks very much, > >> Sandy Shapiro > > >It may help if you supply the following info: > > >card make/model > >card chipset > >card interface (ISA, PCI, etc.) > > >P.S. Please post directly to the list and not to individual members. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 2nd ed, p.25
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