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.


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