Re: 3Com NIC Driver?

2004-05-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
HI, Hal. Sorry to jump into this one late, but since Richard said he'd be away for awhile ... In checking on the NIC, I notice it is described at several sites as having both BNC (thinnet, 10Base2) and RJ45 (UTP, 10BaseT) jacks. And I notice that after you ping unsuccessfully, ifconfig reports

Re: 3Com NIC Driver?

2004-05-29 Thread Hal MacArgle
On 05-28, pa3gcu wrote: > On Wednesday 26 May 2004 16:33, Hal MacArgle wrote: > > Greetings: I made the, probable, mistake of buying a 3Com 3C900B-TPC > > PCI BNC NIC discovering that the module automatically installed by > > Slackware 9.0, 2.4.20 - 3c59x.o - does not ping.. Checking the Web I > >

Re: shrunken console on laptop problem

2004-05-29 Thread Beolach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Miller wrote: > I'm having some display problems on a couple of laptops: one has Gentoo, > the other Debian Sid. The difference in the nature of the problem between > the two laptops is that one has an Xwindows display that looks fine > (Gentoo)