On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:23:55AM +0200, Siward wrote: > Hi Alexandru, > > your subject line seems to be a little confused about type card you have. > a 3c905 is not a 3c590 , nor a 3c509, > and therefore they do not have same driver. 3c905 and 3c590 have the same driver; from Documentation/Configure.help in 2.4.20: > 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang/Cyclone" support > CONFIG_VORTEX > This option enables driver support for a large number of 10mbps and > 10/100mbps EISA, PCI and PCMCIA 3Com network cards: > > "Vortex" (Fast EtherLink 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597) EISA and PCI > "Boomerang" (EtherLink XL 3c900 or 3c905) PCI > "Cyclone" (3c540/3c900/3c905/3c980/3c575/3c656) PCI and Cardbus > "Tornado" (3c905) PCI > "Hurricane" (3c555/3cSOHO) PCI The 509 is different, but that doesn't seem to be relevant here: > Subject: 3Com 3C905B-TX (3c59x.o) Kernel problem?! 3c59x.o is the correct driver. And I've had no problems using it to drive an Etherlink XL 3c900 on an Athlon in woody / 2.4.20 or 2.4.21. Which isn't much help... Do you have a built-in ethernet on the motherboard? Is it disabled in the BIOS? What does lspci -v say? What's in /etc/network/interfaces? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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