Hello, this seems to have been subject to quite a lot of messages
lately, and yes, i've read a bunch of them.
And while they've all been helpful in many ways, my actual problem
remains still.
My mandrake 8.0 has 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI 10/100 adapter, and is
connected through DHCP. And the problem is, that the drivers for the
adapter don't seem to work.
Upon booting, the following is displayed (may be little inaccurate,
since the screen sort of flashes by):
Bringing up interface eth0
3c90x.0.gz has parameter switchdelay max < min
[FAILED]
The driver's readme identifies the switchdelay option as disabled by
default. I tried to set it manually in modules.conf as
options 3c90x switchdelay=1
and received a slightly different error (boot time) saying
unknown parameter 'M' for switchdelay
insmod failed
The problem can't reside in the connection itself, 'cos setting the
connection manually with linuxconf doesn't work while connecting a w2k
using dhcp works. I've also tried to reinstall the driver with
rpm, and to recompile it from the source codes but both result in a
screenful of various error messages from gcc / kgcc.
If anybody could give me any hints on how i could fix this problem, i'd
be really grateful (it's takem me three weeks by now, and i'm on the
verge of switching back w or going back to store to get another
adapter..). Thanks.
Juha
Tel. +35850/3256683
Email. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.iki.fi/~jomustaj/
