I have the 3COM 3C509B Combo/ISA/jumpered NIC and have not had a problem with it except it not showing up in DrakConf. I too have the @Home service and the NIC although OLD....it works well...I would trust it long before a cheap Realtek 813x, D-Link card. HTH Jaguar Ron Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I don't know of an issue with any 3com card, the ONLY thing I've heard > is that the 3c509 may not autoconfigure, that's an easy fix. Which 3Com > card do you have? And there is *SOME* USB support [I don't think it's in > mandrake yet, but I understand... it's BETA], if you feel daring and wanna > try it out. > You might wanna check out http://www.linux-usb.org they have a list of > what's working/what's not. > To "squeeze" the partition, all you do is have Partition magic add another > partition in there... I don't see a problem with this, but of course, it > will make one of your drives (c:,d:, or e:) smaller. If you're installing > mandrake, you'll actually need three partitions, so...umm... maybe just have > some spare free space out there for linux and have linux partition it. > -=Ron=- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0 > > > Yes! My Power Pack is arriving today. Any how.... > > As I am still new to this... Earlier this year, I purchased a Dell > Dimension XPSB 733 with Windows NT (arrgh - I wasn't aware of Mandrake). > My first FAT partition is 2 Gig. (drive C), my second FAT is 2 Gig. > (drive D). The third is about 15 Gig. (drive E), and is NTFS. A 3Com > card was included with the workstation. > > From the previous e-mail, I have heard that there is an issue with 3COM. > And, Linux does not support USB - at least not until this Fall. I am > also using the @Home service for the Internet. > If I use Partition Magic, will I be able to squeeze another partition > between the 2nd and 3rd partitions for the Linux installation? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Roman > (I have learned that pain is not my enemy) > -- The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
