Hi, I've got a brand new Pentium II from Gateway 2000, and the 3Com 905 ethernet card is not behaving.
I first tried to install Debian 1.3 with the floppies I'd made on a net-connected machine. That went okay, but then it couldn't see the network, so I couldn't do the rest of the install. So I used a CD with Debian 1.2.5 on it to install a minimal system, and it still couldn't see the network. So I got the latest 3c59x driver from Donald Becker's ftp site (which is at ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/vortex.html) and built a new kernel (2.0.27) with that. This worked, so I installed the 1.3 packages over the 1.2.5, compiled a 2.0.30 kernel (with the updated driver), and then the network went away again with the reboot. I've fiddled with PnP settings in the BIOS, checked IRQs and I/O addresses, compiled the driver as a module and, nothing helps. There are no messages on the logs indicating a problem, and ifconfig reports that the card is up -- but nothing gets through. So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I did, and it worked -- until I rebooted. So it seems I can get the ethernet card to work once, right after installing 1.2.5 and compiling a new kernel with the latest boomerang (3c90x) driver. After that, the card won't talk. I can't figure out why... If anyone has any tips or can help in any other way, I'd greatly appreciate it. Tim. -- Tim Bell .--_|\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Department of Computer Science \_.--._/ University of Melbourne, Australia v -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .