Re: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?
Michael, I was working with another list member for about a week trying everything possible, short of reinstallation, and nothing worked...ulimately this person decided to format the damned hard drive and start over--and, wadda' know? I worked! I haven't a clue what the error was on his machine, but for the life of me I simply couldn't come up with any more tricks. If you don't have anything more than a little installation time invested in your current setup, you might want to give that format reinstall a try. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Michael J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a DSL line at home. Tried setting up a new machine (ASUS P5A w/ onboard audio, AMD K6-2/400, 32MB, 8G disk, S3 video, 3Com 3C905B ethernet adapter, Cisco 675 DSL box) with the "development" option on Mandrake 7.1 (the main "installation" CD only, downloaded from the Old Dominion University mirror in Virginia late last week). The distribution determined the correct ethernet card type, asked for an IP, the gateway IP, primary DNS, and the netmask. I gave it correct values (verified by a coworker whose home machine setup is similar). Nothing happens when I try to get outside the box. I have tried pinging the gateway IP, as well as telnetting out to known addresses for my ISP. The little yellow lights on the DSL doohickey don't flash under any circumstance, although the green lights all do. I have tried swapping the card with one in my Win95 machine, and both cards work under Win95, but neither works under 7.1 Any ideas? At this point I am assuming it is a driver problem. Is the 3C905 driver known to work under 7.1? I remember that Caldera didn't support this card in one of their releases about six months ago. Thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
RE: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?
Michael, You should first make sure that your card is logically up. You can do this by sending it the ifup eth0 command. Then make sure you can ping you own ip address. If you can ping your own ip address then try your dns server. Also you have not mentioned setting up your default route so make sure you set it up also. Thomas Stewart -Original Message- From: Greg Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1? Michael, I was working with another list member for about a week trying everything possible, short of reinstallation, and nothing worked...ulimately this person decided to format the damned hard drive and start over--and, wadda' know? I worked! I haven't a clue what the error was on his machine, but for the life of me I simply couldn't come up with any more tricks. If you don't have anything more than a little installation time invested in your current setup, you might want to give that format reinstall a try. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Michael J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a DSL line at home. Tried setting up a new machine (ASUS P5A w/ onboard audio, AMD K6-2/400, 32MB, 8G disk, S3 video, 3Com 3C905B ethernet adapter, Cisco 675 DSL box) with the "development" option on Mandrake 7.1 (the main "installation" CD only, downloaded from the Old Dominion University mirror in Virginia late last week). The distribution determined the correct ethernet card type, asked for an IP, the gateway IP, primary DNS, and the netmask. I gave it correct values (verified by a coworker whose home machine setup is similar). Nothing happens when I try to get outside the box. I have tried pinging the gateway IP, as well as telnetting out to known addresses for my ISP. The little yellow lights on the DSL doohickey don't flash under any circumstance, although the green lights all do. I have tried swapping the card with one in my Win95 machine, and both cards work under Win95, but neither works under 7.1 Any ideas? At this point I am assuming it is a driver problem. Is the 3C905 driver known to work under 7.1? I remember that Caldera didn't support this card in one of their releases about six months ago. Thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?
I have a DSL line at home. Tried setting up a new machine (ASUS P5A w/ onboard audio, AMD K6-2/400, 32MB, 8G disk, S3 video, 3Com 3C905B ethernet adapter, Cisco 675 DSL box) with the "development" option on Mandrake 7.1 (the main "installation" CD only, downloaded from the Old Dominion University mirror in Virginia late last week). The distribution determined the correct ethernet card type, asked for an IP, the gateway IP, primary DNS, and the netmask. I gave it correct values (verified by a coworker whose home machine setup is similar). Nothing happens when I try to get outside the box. I have tried pinging the gateway IP, as well as telnetting out to known addresses for my ISP. The little yellow lights on the DSL doohickey don't flash under any circumstance, although the green lights all do. I have tried swapping the card with one in my Win95 machine, and both cards work under Win95, but neither works under 7.1 Any ideas? At this point I am assuming it is a driver problem. Is the 3C905 driver known to work under 7.1? I remember that Caldera didn't support this card in one of their releases about six months ago. Thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?
Michael, I had a similar problem and this is what I got from this list, Sounds like you did an automatic install under Mandrake. The automatic install does not install the dhcp client. You had to do that manually. You give no indication of which (if any) Window Manager you use so: Login as root put the initial installation cd in the cdrom drive. From the command line type 'cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS' Then type 'rpm -i dhcp-client-3.0b1pl12-4mdk.i586.rpm' Then type 'shutdown -r now' Hope this helps. Jim - Original Message - From: "Michael J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 5:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1? I have a DSL line at home. Tried setting up a new machine (ASUS P5A w/ onboard audio, AMD K6-2/400, 32MB, 8G disk, S3 video, 3Com 3C905B ethernet adapter, Cisco 675 DSL box) with the "development" option on Mandrake 7.1 (the main "installation" CD only, downloaded from the Old Dominion University mirror in Virginia late last week). The distribution determined the correct ethernet card type, asked for an IP, the gateway IP, primary DNS, and the netmask. I gave it correct values (verified by a coworker whose home machine setup is similar). Nothing happens when I try to get outside the box. I have tried pinging the gateway IP, as well as telnetting out to known addresses for my ISP. The little yellow lights on the DSL doohickey don't flash under any circumstance, although the green lights all do. I have tried swapping the card with one in my Win95 machine, and both cards work under Win95, but neither works under 7.1 Any ideas? At this point I am assuming it is a driver problem. Is the 3C905 driver known to work under 7.1? I remember that Caldera didn't support this card in one of their releases about six months ago. Thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?
Any ideas? At this point I am assuming it is a driver problem. Is the 3C905 driver known to work under 7.1? I remember that Caldera didn't support this card in one of their releases about six months ago. Are you running adsl? It's one thing to have an ethernet connection and quite another to make your DSL modem go. The easiest thing to do is to download the DSL package from roaringpenguin.com. This is included in 7.2. Anyways, all you do is expand the rpm, run adsl-setup, enter simple stuff like your DNS, user name, password, etc. Then you have to run adsl-start and you should see the rest of those lights flicker as the modem makes the connections. This takes all of 5 minutes to set up. Cheers --- Larry
