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Re: 3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?



On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:43, Scarletdown wrote:
> This may seem like a weird question, but is the 3Com
> EtherLink III (3c509) ISA NIC not 
> supported under Knoppix?  I just booted up my hardware
> testing system, which uses a 3c905, 
> and Knoppix failed to detect the NIC.  I know this
> card works, because I also have Win-98SE 
> on this same system, as well as the latest Debian
> install, and both of them recognize the NIC 
> just fine.
> 
> Everything else in the system seems to operate happily
> under Knoppix (though I can't seem to 
> eject the Knoppix CD in order to try out an audio CD),
> just the NIC itself doesn't get 
> recognized, and running netcardconfig seems to confirm
> this, as it returns the following error 
> message:
> 
> "No supported network cards found."
> 
> Oh, and thanks to the guys I chatted with on one of
> the Debian IRC channels last night (if 
> you'se guys are subscribed to this list).  I still
> didn't get XFree86 to work right, but I do have a 
> better idea of what I'm doing now.

Just a note: Things supported in Debian might not be supported in
Knoppix and vice versa. They are very different distributions, so things
often vary between the two.

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