First, my apologies for this off-topic post, but I know that this list is full of very knowledgable people, some of whom have wrestled with a 3com card and linux before. It's a tenuous link, but this box I'm talking about will actually be sitting behind a Dachstein box ;-)... does that almost drag it on-topic? It seems likely that this machine will end it's life (at some point) as a leaf box as well. But I digress...
I have a Compaq Deskpro 2000 that I am trying to install RH7.2 onto. It has no CD drive, so I am attempting to do a network (http) install from my winME box running Apache (temporarily). I used the bootnet.img and I booted up the Deskpro. Unfortunately, when I'm asked to select the driver for my nic, no matter what I select, I get 'failed to insert 3c5x9 module' (where 3c5x9 is the choice I made on the previous screen). The nic actually is a 3com 3c509b combo ISA card and I know it works as I took it straight out of a win98 box (working). I then disabled pnp and set irq=10 io=0x300. The card passes all of its diagnostics. So what gives? Any clues from the linux gurus out there? Do I need to make a driver disk? If so, which driver to I need... the obvious one doesn't seem to work! all the best tim _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
