Re: 3com problem
Quoting Michael Smith (rybolov@authtrans.com):
> The 3c59x module is built into the kernel, just configure your network and it will
> work. You do not have to load any modules. There should be a multiple-line entry
> when the box starts up and the NIC is identified. This system works so slick that I
Something is very wrong with my system then. Here are a selection of
lines captured from a potato installation:
LILO Loading Linux....................
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.17 (herbert@arnor) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000
Detected 132956 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS
Memory: 29712k/32768k available (1732k kernel code, 416k reserved, 768k data, 140k init)
[...]
Calculating module dependencies... done.
Loading modules: 3c59x 3c59x.c:v0.99H 12Jun00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xff00, 00:60:08:0b:b5:dd, IRQ 10
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Checking all file systems...
[...]
Starting portmap daemon: portmap.
Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
System Clock set. Local time: Fri Sep 29 15:40:46 BST 2000
Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run.
That looks very like a 3c59x module being loaded there.
Cheers,
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