the 3com i had was given to be by a friend. he told me to use irq=7, which i did need. that is true... that was the big hurdle that i had when i tried to get it working.... also, i can't guarentee that irq7 is what you want - he used that floopy/3com software (dos-based) to set the irq. i've never used it, but from what i hear it's software based, but not PnP....
also, there's the 3c5x9utils package.... i can't remember which is which ... the 509 and the 905 ... not sure which is isa and pci! i've also never used that 3c5x9utils package... i would hope it does the same thing as the 3com dos software, but i don't know.... On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:12:37PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I've gotten this problem many times w/ the Etherlink III. For some > reason the card doesn't seem to work w/ debian's factory kernel in PnP > mode. I hate PnP anyway, so I disable that (there's a utility to do > this on 3com's site. > > Cameron Matheson > > > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 03:30, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > I've got a spare machine which I'm trying to put Debian on. It's a K6-2 > > 450, > > 128MB RAM, 10GB HD. Not a bad machine at all. I've had trouble putting > > Debian > > on it before, and ended up using Redhat. I'd love to get Debian working on > > it, > > cos I find Debian so much easier to use (that sounds almost blasphemous). > > So > > here's my problem. > -- registered linux user #202942 http://counter.li.org/ ---------------------------- http://www.theigloo.dhs.org
