On Sunday 30 May 2004 14:04, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Greetings again Ray: I did mention that we were 100% 10base2 here and
> had I had a crossover UTP cable to try, would have found the problem
> myself..
>
> Your experience let you say the magic phrase: Auto-media on 3Com
> cards don't always work -
Greetings again Ray: I did mention that we were 100% 10base2 here and
had I had a crossover UTP cable to try, would have found the problem
myself..
Your experience let you say the magic phrase: Auto-media on 3Com
cards don't always work - which was the case.. Default 10baseT, I had
to re-flash it
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
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
> >
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
> find that 3c59x.o is for the 3C900
are you sure that you have the ports,irq,dma,mem settings right ?
have you tryed isapnpdump yet to get the settings for this card?
If you have windblows on this computer you could check the settings
with windblows device manager
are you useing insmod or modprobe ? (try modprobe)
Hal MacArgle wro
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
find that 3c59x.o is for the 3C900 (no suffix) models and that I may
need 3c90x.o instead..
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