Dear Users, In deciding to upgrade my Linux, I decided to change distribution & re-install the whole thing.
It's gone smoothly apart from the fact that the network is not recognised. This is, unfortunately, on the critical path to full installation! The errors reported are: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable In reports about the card, I get: eth0:Initial Media Type is 10baseT eth0:vortex_open() InternalConfig 0120010 ... eth0:media selection timer tick happened, 10baseT eth0:media 10baseT has link beat 8800 eth0:selection timer finished, 10baseT I have a 3com PCI Bus Master 3C590 Combo Network Card. I use the Thin CoAx BNC Connector for this. At Debian installation, I load the 3C359x module, entering the following: options=3 in the Debian screen for command line options. The 3 option specifies 10BASE2 as the medium-type. Things I've tried: *I have tried most other 1/2 sensible options in the module loader; *Someone on comp.os.linux.setup recently reported a similar sounding problem relating to a conflict with a SB card. I took my SB card out & re-installed, but this makes no difference. A few questions: 1.Do you know the solution? 2.Why do the boot messages seem to indicate that the card is configured for RJ45 (10BaseT) when I specified the options in the module loader that I wanted BNC? 3.In what file can I find the modules _with parameters_ being loaded (my slackware system used to have /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for that, but I see nothing equivalent in my debian /etc/)? 4.Any suggestions as to how to further debug this (my Slackware system was running identical hardware barring a SCSI card that Debian seems to have recognised very nicely). Thank you Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .