Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[stuarthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Hall)]

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 17:05:35 PDT, you so eloquently wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:18:44 GMT, Stuart Hall wrote:
>
>> After trying for about 2 weeks to get my Ethernet card working on my
>> main machine I have finally succeeded in getting the module to load.
>> Yippee!  Now I need to connect it to something - which is my old
>> Gateway 486 with a 3-Com (something) 10T ethernet card.
>
>  Can you be more specific?  If you know what card it is, we might be able
>to dig up which IRQ's it's capable of.  If we know what it's capable of, you
>might be able to lock that IRQ to that slot in the BIOS.

Yes, I just got a utility from 3com that enabled me to identify the
card.  It is a 3com 3c503/16 card.  The software I used did not tell
me what IRQs I could use, but did give me "I/O Base 300" whatever that
means.

>
>> When I try "autoload of modules" in the install program, it returns
>> that no modules have been loaded.  When I list the interrupts and IRQs
>> all of them have these cryptic names none of which look like ETH0.
>> The card is plugged in and powered up (the little light on the back of
>> my machine is working).  Is this a Bios thing?
>
>  I've never had much luck with autoload on ISA cards.  Often I can modprobe
>manually and get a response, but not autoprobe.

The module for my card was not listed on the list of modules available
on the bootdisk.  When I tried to load additional modules from the
disk it said something like 'disk image not correct'.  I was going to
look for a 3c50x.o - so can I start the installation using a copy of
the 3c50x.o module from my main machine on a floppy?  Anyone know how
I would go about doing that?  In order to get past this first stage of
installation (since I am doing a network install) I need to get this
card up and running almost immediately.

>
>-=|JP|=-  (Resident GNUbie)
>
>Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.2
>jon_pennington@xxxxxxxxxx  | Kernel 2.2.10+
>Kansas City, Missouri, USA | K6-2 350

Thanks very much!!
Stuart


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Stuart Hall
Connecticut, USA
stuarthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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