Re: Weird problem installing Debian
the 3com i had was given to be by a friend. he told me to use irq=7,
which i did need. that is true... that was the big hurdle that i had
when i tried to get it working....
also, i can't guarentee that irq7 is what you want - he used that
floopy/3com software (dos-based) to set the irq. i've never used it, but
from what i hear it's software based, but not PnP....
also, there's the 3c5x9utils package.... i can't remember which is which
... the 509 and the 905 ... not sure which is isa and pci! i've also
never used that 3c5x9utils package... i would hope it does the same
thing as the 3com dos software, but i don't know....
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:12:37PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've gotten this problem many times w/ the Etherlink III. For some
> reason the card doesn't seem to work w/ debian's factory kernel in PnP
> mode. I hate PnP anyway, so I disable that (there's a utility to do
> this on 3com's site.
>
> Cameron Matheson
>
>
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 03:30, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
> > I've got a spare machine which I'm trying to put Debian on. It's a K6-2 450,
> > 128MB RAM, 10GB HD. Not a bad machine at all. I've had trouble putting Debian
> > on it before, and ended up using Redhat. I'd love to get Debian working on it,
> > cos I find Debian so much easier to use (that sounds almost blasphemous). So
> > here's my problem.
>
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