There seems to be confusion about the chipset.
Since there is both a 3C509, and a 3C905...I suggest pulling the card after
POWER OFF....and reading the chipset off of the card...to make sure you are
trying the correct Driver.
HTH
Jaguar
"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yep...I know it's a 3c905B card...
> and I looked through the documentation again and didn't see anything of
> help. One thing I'm confused about,however: if it is the IRQ etc., how do
i
> change that? (I have win98 too)
> Thanks
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 5:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] DHCP...
>
>
> there is a task manager called ktop. It seems that it's what you need.
> About your 3com card : are you sure this is the module you need?
> Is there anything mentionned about that in your card's documentation?
>
> Dave wrote :
> > insmod 3c509 gives me
> > ./3c509.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> > ....sorry to have so little to go on, but I have no way of figuring out
> what
> > tto do next.
> > (on a side note, is there a taskmanager or ctrl+alt+del equivalent in
> linux?
> > I know that there is ps, but anything else (especially if it is accesible
> in
> > KDE))?
> > Thanks
> > Dave
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > have you tried a insmod 3c509 ??
> > does not look like the mod for the nic is loaded (hence the no eth0 in
> > ifconfig)
> > after you try the insmod (and get no errors ) try a modprobe 3c509
> > and then a ifconfig if you then see a eth0 ... BINGO
> > you can go into linuxconf and edit eth0 to use the 3c509 modual and dhcp
> > protocol.
> > after you save and exit linuxconf try ifconfig again you should see eth0,
> > if no do a ifup eth0
> >
> > Regards,
> > ROn
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