>>>>> "David" == David Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Have been trying to install RH 5.0 on a Dell file server.
I have Red Hat 5.0 installed on a Dell PowerEdge 4200 (up 84 days).
This machine has a 3com Boomerang 100baseT card.
David> Everything installs dandy, except it will not recognize the
David> 3Com ethernet adapter. I have tried things like installing
Which 3com ethernet adapter?
David> two separate but identical machines, adding a PCI 3Com card
David> (giving it two ethernet adapters), installing a version of
David> 5.0 cut in 12/97 and one cut in 1/98, all kinds of
David> variations. The odd thing is I can install on the boot disk
David> and then I tell it I want a NFS installation and the
David> supplemental disk finds the 3com ethernet adapter just
David> fine. . . but after I compile the kernel, nothing.
Why do you compile the kernel? Unless you have a dual-CPU machine
there is basically no need.
David> It is a 3com 3c509 internal, and also a PCI based 3com 3c509.
David> An odder thing is I had an earlier version of RedHat (4.1 or
David> 4.2, can't recall), running on the machine with no problems.
David> So I know the system(s) works. . .
David> Thoughts anyone? Is there an issue with 5.0 and 3com? I
Mine works fine. Are you sure you haven't misconfigured the kernel?
Are you using the 3com driver as a module or compiled in? What module
parameters are you using? What happens when you turn up the debug
level for that driver (debug=3 on the options line for conf.modules)?
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