At 02:15 AM 11/19/01 -0000, Tim Hicks wrote:
...
>If we assume that the drivers on the disk are for 3c59x, then am I right in
>thinking I'm gonna have to make a driver disk? Guess I'll have to go and
>RTFM on that.
Jeff's guess as to your problem is almost surely the right one. Any 1-disk
boot system has to make some guesses about what NICs it is likely to
encounter and include only a selected subset of the available modules. Ther
isn't enough room on a boot floppy to do anything else. Guessing that the
older, isa-based NICs are uncommon probably isn't unreasonable on average.
(3c59x supports newer, pci-based NICs from 3Com.)
As to getting the driver for the older NIC you are using ... the Red Hat ftp
site's README file says there is a supplemental disk that contains the
less-common network drivers. Called drvnet.img, it is available at
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.2-en/os/i386/images/
I haven't used Red Hat in years, but I expect that the main disk,
bootnet.img, has an option somewhere for loading modules from a
supplementary disk.
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