Dell Demsion, do they acutally use Standard 3COM nics or those 1" PCI
pusdo things?
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, S. Newhouse wrote:
> Thomas J. Hamman writes:
> > On 21-Oct-99 S. Newhouse wrote:
> > > 2. The installation did not recognize the 3COM905C ethernet card.
> > > After rebooting, modprobe did find the driver, so it can be used, but,
> > > again, this should not happen.
> >
> > Interesting, Mandrake 6.0's installation did not detect the same card in my
> > girlfriend's Dimension either! Could you tell me how you got the card working
> > (the modprobe command you used?) so I could help her with it? She's very
> > anxious to escape Win98.
> >
> > -Tom
> Basically,
> 1. make sure the network is running.
> 2. just load the 3c90x.o module with
> modprobe 3c90x.o
> 3. use ifconfig to set up the ethernet and you're off and running.
> You can then get all of these things running in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> so they work when you boot up.
> If you need more info, send me private e-mail (to cut down on
> bandwidth to the mailing list) and I'll try to give more specific
> help.
>
> Good luck,
> -sen
>
>
> -Cheers,
> -sen
>
