Hey, I've gotten this problem many times w/ the Etherlink III. For some reason the card doesn't seem to work w/ debian's factory kernel in PnP mode. I hate PnP anyway, so I disable that (there's a utility to do this on 3com's site.
Cameron Matheson On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 03:30, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I've got a spare machine which I'm trying to put Debian on. It's a K6-2 450, > 128MB RAM, 10GB HD. Not a bad machine at all. I've had trouble putting Debian > on it before, and ended up using Redhat. I'd love to get Debian working on > it, > cos I find Debian so much easier to use (that sounds almost blasphemous). So > here's my problem. > > It's got a 3Com Etherlink III card in it. Not a bad card, well supported. The > module installs for it - the link light on the hub lights, it accepts the IP > address I've put in - everything seems to be going fine. HOWEVER, I can't > ping > the machine, NOR can I get any network connectivity out. I've booted with the > idepci boot disks and the standard bootdisks for both the stable and testing > releases - same problem. It's not a hardware issue - Redhat works just fine > on > that machine. So where am I going wrong? > > Thanks for your help, > > Andrew > > "I do not agree with what you say, > but I will defend to the death your right to say it." > Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
