To everyone on the list
First, I would like to thank everyone who replied to my post. You help was
very much appreciated and I was able to solve two of my problems so far.
Secondly, when I wrote that post I was frustrated about my inability to
solve my problems. I like to consider myself somewhat technically proficient
and can usually solve the problems that I have come across. However, this
was in Windows and I guess that it's so dumbed down anyone can figure it
out. Linux is not like that, as you all know. Several years ago I had a 133
running Slackware. I never could get any form of x running but further
experimentation was put on hold due to a divorce. I had read several
articles complimentary to the Mandrake distribution. I went out and bought
the 6.5 version and got everything going except the nic card. I was amazed
that it went so well! But as hard as I tried, I could not get the blankety -
blank nic card running. I checked 3Com and their documentation was oriented
toward the PCI version and not the ISA version which I have. I tried the Don
Becker page and really didn't understand it to well except it seemed to
imply that I needed to add a driver and recompile the kernel.
Not wanting to do that I thought that I would just upgrade to 7.0 and maybe
that would cure my nic card problem. I have a cable connection and I
downloaded the distribution from a Mandrake FTP mirror. After several tries
to install it, I got it to install. Once again the install could not find
the nic card. It was listed in the install configuration setup but no joy.
This is when I went off the deep end and wrote my now infamous post. I got a
lot of great information. To solve the logging out problem and the Draxconf
not installed, I just reinstalled the distribution again and this time I
used the expert mode. I set x not to start at login and Draxconf installed
ok.
You all know what is coming next. That's right, no nic card. So after
visiting several newsgroups and re-reading the posts to this list I edited
the /etc/conf.modules file. I added the line Options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=9
I got the parameters from windows and again no joy. I am at the point where
I am going to disable the PnP setting on the card. If this does not work I
am going to check the supported cards at the Redhat site and get another
card.
Again, thanks for not flaming me too much. I'll let everyone know how it
went
Art
