Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs
Quoting Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>:
> OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step
> back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on')
>
> A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have
> $40 dollars worth of cds setting here. Surely I can at least use them
> to get the base install going and maybe get my nic setup. Then do the
> rest via network?
>
> In the last three attempts my nic is not recognized and any attempt to
> install one of the 3com drivers is rejected. I didn't capture any
> error info but will this time if it comes up. My card is:
> 3Com 3C905B-TX (PCI)
It's been a long time since I've done a straight install, so I don't know
how usefull I can be.
Here's some info that might help:
http://www.ssc.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/nic.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.7
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
My guess is an irq setting isn't being found correctly. What resources was
the card successfully using before?
Bob
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