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Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm



Akop,

Many thanks.

On 28 Aug 98, at 21:36, Akop Pogosian wrote:

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> The 3c900/905 cards are supported with the latest 3c59x driver.
> Even if redhat 5.0 does recognize your card it will not function.
> At least, this was my case. This is because, the RedHat CD that I
> had came with 2.0.32 kernel. Before, you had to solve that problem
> by d/loading the 3c59x.c driver compiling it, putting it the
> /lib/modules/2.0.xx/, and adding a line "alias eth0 3c59x" in
> /etc/conf.modules. However the latest stable kernels already
> include the 3c59x driver that will work with 3c900/905 cards out of
> box. Hamm, does not recognize or detect your ethernet cards during
> install. You have to make sure that you select 3c59x module
> manually. It worked out of box. My computer was online once I
> rebooted after the install. 



Dave Warnock
Sundayta Ltd
www.sundayta.co.uk


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