The 2.6 kernel has issues with the IBM 300GL and the 3com cards. You have to do a cold boot or reboot from a 2.4 kernel (or any other OS actually). I imagine this is what your probably doing anyways, since you obviously had to a cold boot when you returned. Running the command `dmesg | less` will give you the kernel output, see if you see something about the ethernet card. You can do that after a insmod (I would suggest using the command modprobe instead) and see what new messages it puts out.

You can follow the kernel bug at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394 (it has the errors messages you would see if you have the problem I described).


Alex might have compiled it into the kernel so it doesn't need to be loaded. Are you sure the ethernet is the problem? You could typing dhclient as root and see if you pick up an internet address or not, though I guess you'll be using a static ip (which requires using ipconfig).

Chad Mohler wrote:
Hi, all.

At the InstallFest on Saturday, Alex (Alec?) and Ian were great in helping me successfully upgrade to the Debian 2.4.25 kernel on the IBM 300GL machine (model#6285) that is to be the new server on campus for Moodle, the open-source alternative to Blackboard. Unfortunately, with the kernel upgrade, the Ethernet card (a 3com "Vortex" model) is no longer working on the machine (either booting up with the new kernel or with the old one, 2.4.18, with which the Ethernet card had previously worked). At the advice of Don Bindner, I added to the /etc/modutils directory a file called "local" with the single line in it, "alias eth0 3c59x." That didn't get the Ethernet card working (nor did adding that line to the aliases file in the same directory). Running "insmod 3c59x," I got the reply that the module already existed.

Any help you could offer in getting the Ethernet card recognized would be great. It's hard for the machine to be a server without an Internet connection! Thanks.

--- Chad

P.S.: I'd bring the machine to the Wednesday TSLUG meeting, but unfortunately, I have another commitment already scheduled for the same time.



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