Cannot get 3Com 3c515 card to work with RH5...

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2 total messages Started by Joe Tseng Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:00

#497

Author: Joe Tseng
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:00

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I can't seem to get eth0 to initialize properly.  I had a RH42 setup that
was flaky at best; this was the set of commands I used to initialize eth0:

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/usr/local/isapnptools-1.11/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.0.32/net/3c515.o
ifconfig eth0 10.1.0.26 netmask 255.255.0.0
route add -net 10.1.0.0
route add default gw 10.1.0.1

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It seems I don't need the first line because it's already being run.
When I run the rest of it line by line, it seems fine.  The computer would
say it found the card with the right hardware address when I ran the 2nd
line.  The rest should just be networking initialization.

I still get nothing.

FYI I got the card driver from some guy's site at CESDIS/NASA Greenbelt.
It was flaky but it worked under RH42, now it just doesn't work.

Any helpful advice will be greatly appreciated.

(Unfortunately I work with MicroBorg WinNT and I'm trying to prove to my
office workers that Unix is a superior system.) 


Joe Tseng
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1998 NEW YORK YANKEES -- Unfinished Business
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Re: Cannot get 3Com 3c515 card to work with RH5...

#498

Author: Joe Klemmer
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 00:00

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On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:16:22 -0500, Joe Tseng <jtseng@gwyn.tux.org> wrote:

>Any helpful advice will be greatly appreciated.
>
>(Unfortunately I work with MicroBorg WinNT and I'm trying to prove to my
>office workers that Unix is a superior system.) 

	Try compiling the card in a monolithic kernel and not use modules for 
the nic cards.  I've always had problems with them being loaded as modules.

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