3com problem
Hi, I'm trying to install the base system via ftp, but I can't because the drivers in the potato release doesn't have support for my NIC (3Com 905). What can I do - please help. Thanks. Pete.
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:47:33AM -0500, Piotr Chudykowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install the base system via ftp, but I can't because the drivers in the potato release doesn't have support for my NIC (3Com 905). What can I do - please help. Thanks. Pete. You'll have to compile the modules, or compile it into the kernel. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it - Moliere pgplCQByryceO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3com problem
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:47:33AM -0500, Piotr Chudykowski wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install the base system via ftp, but I can't because the drivers in the potato release doesn't have support for my NIC (3Com 905). What can I do - please help. Are you sure? Driver for the 905 is 3c59x.. -- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp1nR6h1xkNy.pgp Description: PGP signature
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I realized you don't have the base installed. It's late, sorry. Guess that wasn't of any help. -- Chaotic42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it - Moliere pgpzrxsWMZe6D.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Ever since I switched (temporarily) to using OE some peoples mails appear as attachments. I didn't have this problem before with mutt. BTW, on the same topic, is it sane to use Emacs for reading mails in Windows or are there any other mailreaders for Windows that is not OE-ish. I ask this as I know there are Windows users in the list also who maybe using different mail clients. --- who watches the watchmen? - Original Message - From: Christen Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 2:12 PM Subject: Re: 3com problem
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: Ever since I switched (temporarily) to using OE some peoples mails appear as attachments. I didn't have this problem before with mutt. BTW, on the same topic, is it sane to use Emacs for reading mails in Windows or are there any other mailreaders for Windows that is not OE-ish. I ask this as I know there are Windows users in the list also who maybe using different mail clients. Well, I recently started using debian and about the only thing I miss is Eudora Pro. There's probably a good MUA for debian out there with equal capabilities, but I haven't found it yet. This message comes from Pine (which I use at work and find wonderful), but I haven't seen a mail client that's as good as Eudora when it comes to things like forwarding with predefined messages (stationaries) and stuff like that. Maybe that's just because I don't know yet what's out there... Anyway if you're looking for a good MUA on one of the MS platforms I'd look at Eudora (handles attachments like a charm and has an almost clean bill of health regarding security). If you want cross-platform useability then I'd recommend Pine (I use it at work on a NT box and at home with debian, both with the same .pinerc). HTH Grx HdV P.S. Can anyone tell me if mutt handles stationaries? And if so, can it use them with forwarding in a way similar to Eudora? -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Quoting Piotr Chudykowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to install the base system via ftp, but I can't because the drivers in the potato release doesn't have support for my NIC (3Com 905). What can I do - please help. The driver to use is 3c59x . Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
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Quoting Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ever since I switched (temporarily) to using OE Does that explain the subject line? :) some peoples mails appear as attachments. I didn't have this problem before with mutt. BTW, on the same topic, is it sane to use Emacs for reading mails in Windows or are there any other mailreaders for Windows that is not OE-ish. I ask this as I know there are Windows users in the list also who maybe using different mail clients. Pine is one that IIRC doesn't look too unlike mutt. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
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The 3c59x module is built into the kernel, just configure your network and it will work. You do not have to load any modules. There should be a multiple-line entry when the box starts up and the NIC is identified. This system works so slick that I have 2 3c905's that I slap into a box just to simplify my life. Then I switch later to a different card if I want to. Do the basic stuff--partition the hd, select keyboard, initialize hd partitions, and then configure networking (yes, this is a little bit out of order.) After that, get the kernel and modules via ftp, then the base system via ftp. I have a T-1 right here in my office, and this has got to be the best system around. --Mike Piotr Chudykowski wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install the base system via ftp, but I can't because the drivers in the potato release doesn't have support for my NIC (3Com 905). What can I do - please help. Thanks. Pete. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot.
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Quoting Michael Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The 3c59x module is built into the kernel, just configure your network and it will work. You do not have to load any modules. There should be a multiple-line entry when the box starts up and the NIC is identified. This system works so slick that I Something is very wrong with my system then. Here are a selection of lines captured from a potato installation: LILO Loading Linux Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Linux version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 Detected 132956 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS Memory: 29712k/32768k available (1732k kernel code, 416k reserved, 768k data, 140k init) [...] Calculating module dependencies... done. Loading modules: 3c59x 3c59x.c:v0.99H 12Jun00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xff00, 00:60:08:0b:b5:dd, IRQ 10 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, MII interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. Checking all file systems... [...] Starting portmap daemon: portmap. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. Local time: Fri Sep 29 15:40:46 BST 2000 Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. That looks very like a 3c59x module being loaded there. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
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Which kernel prebuilt are you using? idepci has 3C95x support built in, or at least it works right off the boot disk with no problems. I don't need the kernel disk at all--just grab the kernel and modules right off the network. --Mike I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
