Re: pci problem with dell
The driver is at:
"3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html\n";;
This is the bd. on Dell computer, "3c905B Cyclone 10 / 100baseTx"
If you can't get it, I will send to you.
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark H. Mabry <mmabry@avici.com>
To: Daryl Williams <daryl.williams@sharewave.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: pci problem with dell
>>>>>> "Daryl" == Daryl Williams <daryl.williams@sharewave.com>
>>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:28:16 -0700
>
> Daryl> mark, thanks for your reply. i am have a 3com 3c905B-TX card
> Daryl> as well as a Kingston 10/100 card that is an NB2000
> Daryl> clone. they both show up in /proc/pci, however i was unable
> Daryl> to install the drivers for either. i have just finished
> Daryl> loading the base system from disk and was planning on using
> Daryl> ftp to get the rest of the o.s. however now i am in a
> Daryl> catch-22 situation as i cannot see the network. is there any
> Daryl> way to try to install
>
> Daryl> the drivers without going through the installation again?
>
>Ahhh, I had the same problem when installing my 3c905 at work. This
>card is also known as the Boomerang. You'll see that name if you
>recompile the kernel. On my Debian CD which was 1.3.1, I believe -
>almost a year old, it did not have the 3c905 driver. I had to go out
>and get it.
>
>When I was recompiling the 2.0.34 kernel I'm pretty sure I saw it in
>there, so you could
> 1) go out and get a new kernel source and compile, or
> 2) get a newer kernel*.deb file and see if that has the driver.
>
>Sorry but I don't use the kernel*.deb packages, so I really don't know
>about that.
>
>I don't know of a way for you to get ethernet running with the 3c905
>and only your current Debian CD. And I don't know anything about the
>NB2000.
>
>Mark Mabry
>mmabry@avici.com
>
>
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