3com 3c905b support in Hamm

["David Warnock" <david@Sundayta.co.uk>]

Hi,

Cards recognised by Hamm?

I am about to get Hamm installed on 4 PC's. I have been checking  out the hardware for Linux compatability by starting the installation  of a RedHat 5.0 CD (my Installer arrives on Tuesday with the  Debian CD and I want to be sure everything is going to be ready).

Currently I have as many different network cards as PC's.  Two are  recognised by RH 5.0 two are not.

The ones that are NOT recognised by RH5.0 are a Intel  EtherExpress Pro 100/B and a 3Com 3c905b-tx Fast Etherlink XL  PCI 10/100base-tx.

Are these going to be recognised / work with Hamm?  What  confuses me is that a slightly older 3com 3c905 tx (ie not the "b")  is recognised by RH5.0 but as a 3c59x (Vortex).

Thanks

Dave


PS When I say recognised by RH5.0 is means I start the  installation, at the point of FDISK I jump to the menu and choose  network configuration. With the working PCI card the installation  just shows me it's name and goes straight to the setting of IP  address etc. With the other cards I get a menu of supported cards,  when I choose what I think is the correct one I get the change to  autoprobe but it never finds the card. 

I realise a) Hamm installation is completely different and b) it may  be possible to get these cards to work by setting some parameters  manually.

So what I really need to know is a) will Hamm support these cards  automatically or if not can I get them to work with some manual  parameter setting.

Dave Warnock
Sundayta Ltd
www.sundayta.co.uk