dell inspiron 4000, 3com miniPCI 3c556 (vortex)

2000-11-17 Thread Samir Girdhar
Hey all, New to the list, new to notebooks, using debian for over a year, and linux since 0.99pl14 ;-) So I've recently got myself a Dell Inspiron 4000 and am having trouble getting the 3Com miniPCI NIC working. I've got potato installed on the machine (base + a few bits) but whenever I try

Re: dell inspiron 4000, 3com miniPCI 3c556 (vortex)

2000-11-21 Thread Samir Girdhar
Thanks Heather, I've got the NIC working, now. On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:02:13 -0500 Heather wrote: > > I've got potato installed on the machine (base + a few bits) but > > whenever I try to load the 3c59x (vortex) kernel module, it > > craps out with (paraphrased): "device or resource busy". [snip

dell inspiron 4000, 3com miniPCI 3c556 (vortex)

2000-11-17 Thread Samir Girdhar
Hey all, New to the list, new to notebooks, using debian for over a year, and linux since 0.99pl14 ;-) So I've recently got myself a Dell Inspiron 4000 and am having trouble getting the 3Com miniPCI NIC working. I've got potato installed on the machine (base + a few bits) but whenever I try

Re: dell inspiron 4000, 3com miniPCI 3c556 (vortex)

2000-11-21 Thread Samir Girdhar
Thanks Heather, I've got the NIC working, now. On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:02:13 -0500 Heather wrote: > > I've got potato installed on the machine (base + a few bits) but > > whenever I try to load the 3c59x (vortex) kernel module, it > > craps out with (paraphrased): "device or resource busy". [sni