RE: 3com NIC question

2001-07-13 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:27 PM To: Joost Kooij Cc: Alan Shutko; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 3com NIC question On 12 Jul 2001 17:25:42 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > To 3com's credit, they did offer a utility that allowed one to disable > the madn^H^H^H^Hplug-n-play.

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12 Jul 2001 17:25:42 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > To 3com's credit, they did offer a utility that allowed one to disable > > the madn^H^H^H^Hplug-n-play. > > Really? Do you know where I can get that? 3c5x9cfg.exe... should be on the driver disk

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
On 12 Jul 2001 17:25:42 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > To 3com's credit, they did offer a utility that allowed one to disable > the madn^H^H^H^Hplug-n-play. Really? Do you know where I can get that? Cameron Matheson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:25:07AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > > > AFAIK the main problem with 3c509 nics is that they are not really > > plug-n-pray at all! > > I'm not sure it was _just_ marketing lies... I think it tried to be > PnP, but the 3c509Bs w

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > AFAIK the main problem with 3c509 nics is that they are not really > plug-n-pray at all! I'm not sure it was _just_ marketing lies... I think it tried to be PnP, but the 3c509Bs were released shortly after the PnP spec came out, and before there were man

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:41:53AM +, Frank Copeland wrote: > On 12 Jul 01 06:55:28 GMT, Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Sunny> hey, I have a 3c509 NIC. > > > >Sunny> I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I use

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Frank Copeland
On 12 Jul 01 06:55:28 GMT, Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Sunny> hey, I have a 3c509 NIC. > >Sunny> I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used >Sunny> dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I > >Try

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Guy Geens
> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sunny> hey, I have a 3c509 NIC. Sunny> I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used Sunny> dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I Try `modprobe 3c509' and restart the network with `/etc/init.d/networking r

RE: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 5:34 PM To: Sunny Dubey Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 3com NIC question On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey, > > I have a 3c509 NIC. > > I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used dhcpc

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-11 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey, > > I have a 3c509 NIC. > > I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used dhcpcd) But for > some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I stfw'ed. (searched the fucking > web). looking at various mailing lists, i found that I wasn't the o

RE: 3com NIC question

2001-07-11 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
For reasons unbeknownst to me, I've had problems before when using 3c509's with Debian's stock installation kernel. There has even been a few times when I had to swap NICs just for the installation to work. As soon as I compile my a custom kernel for the machines and put the 3c509's back in, it w

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hey, > > I have a 3c509 NIC. [...] > Does anyone have any insight on why this happens only in linux? (I tried > under windows, and it works there too) You don't have something configured correctly on your card. It's not a problem with the driver und