On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 03:12:42PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> I just purchased for my home LAN at a flea market a used 3 Com Etherlink
> III ISA card (I know, it was stupid, but for $7 bucks it was worth trying
> it out). As you guessed, it isn't working. I installed the card on my
> Win95 box, which immediately recognized it as a 3c509B-C card. It
> installed the drivers from the Win95 CD. However, the light on the
> network Hub is off, and when I ping the card's address it doesn't work.
>
> The card has to have some life or Win95 wouldn't have recognized its
> model. Could this be a driver problem, or can I consider the card as dead?
If the link light doesn't go on, that usually means the card is
useless/dead. for info on the linux driver for it, go to:
http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html
The driver should already be installed. just modprobe 3c509
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