Hi There, > This may seem like a weird question, but is the 3Com > EtherLink III (3c509) ISA NIC not > supported under Knoppix?
I diagnosed a very strange error with one of these cards last night. Essentially, there seemed to be some type of hardware inconsistency that caused the card to decide it was on a 10base2 network and not a 10baseT network. According to the kernel documentation it would: "Prior to January, 2001 this driver would autoeselect the 10base2 or AUI port if it didn't detect activity on the 10baseT port. It would then get stuck on the 10base2 port and a driver reload was necessary to switch back to 10baseT. This behaviour could not be prevented with a module option override.: This was on a 2.4.18bf2-4 kernel. I didn't think that this would happen but when I forced the module to only use 10baseT the card suddenly worked again. After Knoppix has loaded, have you tried manually probing the 3c509 driver(s)? DSL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
