John,
When 3Com added the TX to this card and made the NT net boot option, it
started doing funny things. So much so that it has trouble under
Windows/Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD and probably others that I haven't
tried. I've loaded and reloaded a variety of distro's on my test box and
I'd say 80% of the time RedHat or Mandrake grab the card ok The other 20%
it seems to miss the fact that it is there altogether. From what I've
gathered from people at svlug and the BSD groups it's a problem for
everyone. In fact when I mentioned the card people all over the room
cringed. :)
James
At 03:39 AM 6/21/00, you wrote:
>Is it normal for the auto-install of 7.1 to skip the installation of my
>network
>adapter and the configuration of TCP/IP? This seems a bit odd. The nic is a
>3c59x compatible 3c905B-TX. A quick reconfig with DrakConf had everything
>up and
>running in no time.
>
>John LeMay Jr.
>Senior Enterprise Consultant
>NJMC, LLC.
>
>Mandrake Linux 7.0 (2.2.14) / Polarbar Mailer 1.16c
>JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-20000515
