Re: [Fwd: Re: Network problem - 3Com card]
Whoo-hoo! Thanks Frankie! Although the instructions you gave didn't match
exactly what I was seeing, it got me about half-way there, and along with
some instructions on custom kernel's from www.debian's documentation page I
got another 45% of the way, and I just tinkered and explored my way through
the last 5%, and now I have a working network card.
Thanks again!
And to you, Heikki, thanks for the input. I stuck with the 2.0.34 kernel
though, cause it was over my head to download the 2.0.35 kernel from
another machine and copy it to my Linux box and etc, etc. But now that I
have a working network, maybe I'll upgrade to 2.0.35 (or maybe even go to
Slink -- whooo-o-o).
Have a good one, ya'll!
At 01:04 PM 2/13/1999 +0000, Frankie wrote:
>This is a reply I gave to someone else recently re 3com 905's.
>Basically I successfully got a friend's 3com 905 10/100 MB/s PCI card.
>I don't know what model it was exactly. If you have a debian CD, the
>debian source is on the CD, so you don't need to download it.
>
>frankie
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: Network problem - 3Com card
>Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:50:27 +0000
>From: Frankie <frankie@skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk>
>To: Mark Muffett <markm@its-axiom.com>
>References: <[🔎] 741ED2F75E60CF11BCD8006008630B4E11BBE9@NT4S4.ntits.com>
>
>Mark Muffett wrote:
>>
>> I've just installed Linux for the first time. Almost everything went
>> smoothly - including X windows, but I cannot get the network card to
>> work.
>>
>> I use a fairly standard card (3Com 905-TX, PCI 10/100BaseT), but I can't
>> see any drivers for it when I run modconf. I presume this is the
>> problem. Can anyone tell me where to get the right driver, or which one
>> to use instead?
>>
>> Mark Muffett
>
>I got this card working just yesterday with a 2.0.34 kernel.
>I'll be as patronisingly simple in my explanation as I can because this
>is the first time you installed Linux. :-)
>
>The steps I took were:
>I had a look at modconf, but the modules were not any use.
>I installed the kernel-source-2.0.34 or whatever package.
>I cd'd to /usr/src/linux
>I typed make menuconfig
>This brought up a screen with all the options and stuff (This is where
>you select sound card support as well)
>If I remember correctly, under network devices, there were 3 options I
>had to select:
> the driver for the 3com905
> a PCI ethernet option
> and something else .
>I didn't make these as modules, but I'm sure it would work if you did.
>I then exited, saving my configuration.
>then I ran make-kpkg, with parameters something like --bximage
>--revision 1 kernel_image. (make-kpg is in the kernel-package package).
>The kernel took about 10 minutes to compile on a P166 or something.
>then I ran dpkg -i kernel-package-* from /usr/local/src
>I rebooted my machine and presto.
>
>frankie
>
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