On 10/28/2009 8:09 PM, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got
similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a "3Com
Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)" and that "Kernel driver
in use: 3c59x". Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for
that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for
similar cards (one of which had "[Typhoon]" in the name).
However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything
works great. Thanks for all your help.
Marcus
Now I'm confused. I did a search here as well and it returned nothing
matching that driver. This is a first for me. Has anyone else ever
searched for a driver when you have the exact name and not get a match
when the driver is actually there? I did a manual search and the driver
is there.
Glad you got the network working tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
Yeah, I guess it's because you have to download that particular driver
separately?
Marcus
It's in the kernel tho. This appears to be the one:
3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support
The help screen lists your card. Just weird to me.
Dale
:-) :-)
Oh, now it makes sense that my card worked with that driver. Come to
think of it, I didn't even know that each menuconfig option had its own
help message...that could have come in handy.
Marcus
