08/01/2004 floppies: 3c59x doesn't work

[Max Moritz Sievers <max@enddeluxe.de>]

I'm trying to install Debian Sarge with the floppies from 1st August 2004 on a 
Pentium 2GHz (boot, root, net-drivers).
The problem is that I can't get to the internet.
The computer is in a local network and has a static IP-adress, gateway and 
DNS-server. It works under Windows XP.


Here are some lines from /var/log/syslog:

netcfg[2846]: INFO: Executing: mii-diag -s eth0
netcfg[2846]: sh: mii-diag not found

netcfg[2846]: INFO: link status for eth0 is: unknown (127)

hw-detect: Detected module ´3c59x´ for ´3Com Corporation 3c900B Combo
  Etherlink XL [Cyclone]´
kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:0c.0 (0014 -> 0017)
kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0c.0
kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:06.0
kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:09.0
kernel: 3c59x: Donal Becker and others ...

kernel: 00:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c900B Cyclone 10Mbps Combo at 0x9000 . Vers
  LK1.1.18-ac

kernel: 00:0c.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled


So where is the problem and what does it cause?

-- 
with regards,
Max Moritz Sievers