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Stefan,
My 3com cards were plug and play in SuSE 6.3 and 6.4... The model 509 that
you specify sounds familiar to me however I cannot recollect my exact model
numbers.  Specifically, I have a 2year old PCMCIA 3com card in my Toshiba
laptop (again, SuSE 6.3 was fully plug and play, including the graphics
card).  My PC has a 10mb 3com card (again, I cannot remember the exact model
number)but it did plug and play (nope, I don't work for SuSE but the plug
and play feel is one of the reason why I like them).  I did find a small
error whereby the SuSE machine could ping itself but see nobody else.  I
managed to change the network card it was using and from that point
forward... it worked...

If you have more than one Windoze PC, make sure you can ping one of the
other as this will ensure you have TCP/IP installed.  Do a properties on
Network Neighbourhood and look in the window titled "The following network
components are installed".  You should have TCP/IP in there, if not, use the
Add buttons to add it in as a Service.  Secondly, ensure your Primary
Network Logon is Network for Microsoft Windows.

Make sure you apply IP addresses to them.  I have my windows machines using
IP 192.168.0.50 to 192.168.0.60  Use 255.255.255.0 as a subnet mask.  Give
the PCs a hostname and domain name.  I will assume you are going to use
win98.stony777.com okay?  Do NOT put anything in the DNS fields as this
might cause some confusion (once you have the machines talking to each
other, then you can make little changes... that way you can always roll
back).  The windows machine is likely to reboot...

When you have done this, go in to DOS and ping either another Windows
machine, or else ping yourself.  Ping 127.0.0.1 and if that responds, ping
yourself using the IP address you configured (thus, from my example above,
ping 192.168.0.50 okay?)


Now... SuSE...
I am currently looking at my SuSE 6.4 Yast screen.  To configure the network
3com card, take the following Yast options from the menu

System administration -> Integrate Hardware into system -> Configure
networking device

Network type is eth0
Networking device type on mine is set to 3c59x/3c90x

Once you have set this, click Enter

Yast menu again...

Network configuration -> Network base configuration

Press F5 for Device, select Ethernet.  Select F6 for IP Address and enter an
IP address (mine is 192.168.0.200 with subnet 255.255.255.0 which will work
fine with the IP addresses I have specified above).  DO NOT ENTER a gateway
or anything else that might confuse the issue at this moment... you don't
need them.

The Device you just configured should be configured as Number 0 (on my
version, it allows me to configure four cards, numbered zero to three, zero
being the first).  You need to enable it... Press F4 and an X will appear in
the window on the row the device is described.

Press F10 to Save your configuration.

From the Yast Network Menu, choose the option "Change host name" and write
in something like suse for the hostname and stony777.com for the domain.
Press Enter until you move back to the Network Menu.

From the Yast Network Menu, choose "Configure network services" and say yes
at very least to the options that are described to enable telnet and ftp...
if in doubt, say yes to all the prompts.

Press ESC all the way out of Yast... Yast is likely to do its thing and
configure the services.  Linux, unlike windoze doesn't need to be
rebooted... You can disable and re-enable networking services with

# rcnetwork stop
# rcnetwork start

However... When installing a card, I prefer to reboot...

When it comes up... have your windows machine ping the linux machine, by IP
address... and versa vicea...

That should work... If not... drop me a byte and if I can help, I will...
while I have some HP Unix experience, I don't have extensive SuSE
experience... but I will try... you can get me at    rdusenet @
fiprojects.com

good luck ;-)
randell d.





"Stefan Silberstein" <Stony777@T-Online.de> wrote in message
news:39CB2538.5B934625@T-Online.de...
Hello guys,

I am new to Linux and it is hard for me to get through this SAMBA-stuff.
I tried to connect to machines (1. SuSE Linux 7.0, 2. Win 98) with
3com509 Ethernet cards.

The network-card in the Linux-machine is perfectly detected and Win 98
has it too.

But I could need some help on setting up the connection in both PC�s
that they see one another.
(I tried to configure the smb.conf, but it didn�t help much.

ANY advices is welcome.

Stefan