The quick answer as someone has already said is to go out and buy a Netgear FA311 as they work everytime, without fail.
But, I have one of these cards and I know it works, the answer is to just get the correct module and do insmod 3c5x9 (or which ever driver it is) as root and see if the file can be inserted, email me with any error messages. Or give me a call for more help.
Thanks
D --- Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Hello all, I have been given the following info from someone at LNO on trying to get a 3com NIC to work (one that was given to me by an alug member at the last meet, as it happens). Can anyone confirm this is indeed a good thing to do? I tried for a while to get a Dlink card working, then changed it for this 3com one, which I'm not having much success with either. "3c509 isa cards are PnP jumperless nic's - they were designed to work with winders PnP (work great out of the box for that) in linux, it no worky-worky. you have internet access from a winders pc? if yes, then download disk 2 from here (this link is kicking my butt!!)
\http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=support&pathtype=suppo...
and boot the pc with a dos/winders boot disk - run the PNPDSABL.BAT utility to turn off PnP, then run 3c5x9cfg.exe to set the irq and mem addy you want (i like 10/300 )- after this, you should be good to go" I duly downloaded the disk2, copied it to /tmp on the linux box, started to reboot the linux box with a 95 startup disk, then bottled out and plopped the disk out before it could boot, in a fit of underconfidence at my noncomprehension. The actual history behind the thread at LNO in the first place is here:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f...
Thanks, Jenny
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