Interestingly enough, on both of my systems Drak doesnt show any NIC!
But the NIC's are now working fine.....3Com 3C509B's...
What is one to think?
Bug City could it be?
Cheers:
Mike.
PS... do you think that the powers that be take heed of
our problems or do we have to actively file a bug report.....
Powers that be are invited to respond!
Jaguar wrote:
>
> I have 2 NIC's in this one box ( with a cable modem)...both 3Com's 503/509B,
> both work, yet only the 509B shows up in DrakX...figure that one out. BTW...I
> am sending thiss fomr the NIC that doesn't exist as far as DrakX is
> concerned.
>
> mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ivan Stout wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe so . . . but I've yet confirmed someone running
> > > Mandrake 7.0 on any other card and the other machine
> > > that I installed on had the same problem (and didn't
> > > have a Realtek card). So, until I can confirm that
> > > this is card specific, I'm not going to bother to get
> > > a new card. Besides, it looks like the right module
> > > wasn't loaded. I should be able to figure out by this
> > > weekend.
> > >
> > > --- Jaguar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I think much of the problem is the Realtek card is a
> > > > cheap piece of crap.
> > > > Spend a few more $$ and
> > > >
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
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> >
> > I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on two machines.
> > On the 1st, it recognised my 3C509B ISA NIC No probs.
> > On the 2nd computer with the same NIC it initialised it fine,
> > connected to the encryption site ok..then when I completed the
> > installation and re-started my computer it couldn't initialise
> > it on boot.
> > I did an expert upgrade and re-defined my NIC excactly the
> > same as I had defined it before without changeing
> > anything else and Walla!, when I re-started once again
> > all was well :-)
> >
> > Strange eh!!
> >
> > Cheers:
> >
> >
> > Mike.
>
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