Greetings: I made the, probable, mistake of buying a 3Com 3C900B-TPC
PCI BNC NIC discovering that the module automatically installed by
Slackware 9.0, 2.4.20 - 3c59x.o - does not ping.. Checking the Web I
find that 3c59x.o is for the 3C900 (no suffix) models and that I may
need 3c90x.o instead..
Downloaded the source for that but it wont compile under Slack9.0..
An attempt to -f (force) using a pre-compiled version didn't work
either..
I may be stuck but was wondering if someone may have run into this
and solved the problem, and/or has a module compiled for 2.4.20..
Rather than go into further details of what I did, suffice it to say
that I swapped a RealTec NIC into the same PCI slot, and it worked
perfectly with the ifconfig and route add entries, so I must presume
the cables, etc are OK.. dmesg listed the 3Com NIC, with the same
IRQ# and Port# that were assigned to the RealTec NIC..
Appreciate and TIA.
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
only a genius can truly simplify..
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