Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, finn wrote:
> Well, it's not _strictly_ necessary, unless you dual boot to Win95.
> Win95 seems to get some sort of perverse pleasure out of reconfiguring
> the 3C509 every time it boots up ... and this drives Linux absolutely
> nuts (as it should).
>
> In addition, I've run into a few 3C509s that absolutely refused to work
> with Linux until they were reconfigured manually. Also, try setting up
> multiple 3C509s in one machine without disabling PnP ...
Agreed. We also have a recent batch of combos that won't detect the BNC port
in auto-detect - they have to be explicitly configured to BNC.
Cheers,
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David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K. email: d.wright@open.ac.uk tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151
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