On 13/12/2010, at 1:34pm, James wrote: > Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > >> if I bridge it with the laptop's internal network card. >> However, the 3Com network card doesn't seem to be recognised under my >> installation of Gentoo. > > > OK, shot in the dark: > > /usr/sbin/update-pciids <updates list of pci device numbers> > > My experience is sometimes this data base gets updated > and sometimes, it need a manual push. I'm not certain it > affects your hardware, but, it's a good command to try. > > others <just for grins>: > > update-ca-certificates update-etc update-usbids > update-env update-pciids
I'll try it now. I'm not terribly optimistic, though, as this is such an old card, so is sure to be in the PCI IDs database. Stroller.
