On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tim Hicks wrote:
First, my apologies for this off-topic post, but I know that this list is
full of very knowledgable people, some of whom have wrestled with a 3com
card and linux before. It's a tenuous link, but this box I'm talking about
will actually be sitting behind a Dachstein box ;-)... does that almost drag
it on-topic? It seems likely that this machine will end it's life (at some
point) as a leaf box as well. But I digress...
I have a Compaq Deskpro 2000 that I am trying to install RH7.2 onto. It has
no CD drive, so I am attempting to do a network (http) install from my winME
box running Apache (temporarily). I used the bootnet.img and I booted up
the Deskpro. Unfortunately, when I'm asked to select the driver for my nic,
no matter what I select, I get 'failed to insert 3c5x9
module' (where 3c5x9 is the choice I made on the previous screen). The nic
actually is a 3com 3c509b combo ISA card and I know it works as I took it
straight out of a win98 box (working). I then disabled pnp and set irq=10
io=0x300. The card passes all of its diagnostics. So what gives? Any
clues from the linux gurus out there? Do I need to make a driver disk? If
so, which driver to I need... the obvious one doesn't seem to work!
Never heard of 3c5x9... 3c59x is a compLETEly different nic... You
should have no trouble with 3c509 if you give it NO ARGUMENTS and have
no conflicting hardware in the box (which the diagnostics would indicate
you don't).
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