Howdy, I ran into a problem with version 1.7.361 on an HP machine that has two ethernet cards. When things are running well, the box chugs along with Mandrake 8.1, with eth1 connected to a cable modem and eth0 networking some Windows machines.
Alas, when I boot off the tomsrtbt floppy, both the cards seem to disappear. I get a "3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker" credit line during the boot process, but ifconfig only shows the lo loopback. No eth0 or eth1. And no hints after perusing a dmesg dump. I scanned the forum messages and tried the boot prompt HOWTO's suggestion with "boot: zimage ether=0,0,eth1" to force probing to recognize a second card. But that just generated two credit lines during the boot and still no eth0 or 1. Feh! My theory is that the Vortex driver is just too old to recognize these cards. A clue along those lines appears in the Mandrake boot messages: "3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 00:13.0: 3Com PCI 3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane at 0xfc80. Vers LK1.1.16 00:11.0: 3Com PCI 3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane at 0xfc00. Vers LK1.1.16" The driver source I found on the Scyld site is version 0.99U, so I'm guessing somewhere between 0.99H and the latest version something got fixed or added. If we were talking about installing a module, I'd have a clue or three, but I seem to recall you've stated the driver is part of the kernel code in tomsrtbt. Any ideas how a lazy guy who's never built a kernel can fix things? Is there some incredibly obvious thing I've overlooked? TIA, Tyler
