Network card driver not found - bf24

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@yahoo.com>]

A minor hitch:
While installing 3.0rc1 as default (Enter) on a DELL Inspiron 8100, the
NIC-module (3c59x.o) is found and installed automatically.
With bf24, it isn't. It requires manual intervention (and knowledge
about the module) to install. 
I doubt a 2.4-kernel issue, because RedHat 7.3 installs flawlessly as
well.

dmesg - if required:

 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
02:06.0: 3Com PCI 3c556 Laptop Tornado at 0xe800. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
 00:04:76:48:14:2e, IRQ 10
  product code 0000 rev 00.0 date 03-01-00

Uwe