[linux-help] Re: Connecting Roadrunner to Linux

[bert <bert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Matt Alexander wrote:

> first, you have know if your nic card is installed.
>       Yes, it is installed, but I don't know if it is working
>       correctly

ok, i should have installed AND working.

> 3Com EtherlinkIII      ISA

so let's say it's installed -- sort of.

do you know which module this card requires?
a popular 3Com mod is 3c509 -- if you look at 
dmesg (type dmesg on command line) do you see
the card installed?
if you don't and you modprobe modname (modprobe 3c509),
do you see the nic card in dmesg then?
it might look something like this
--clip--
eth0: 3c509 at 0x250 tag 1, 10baseT port, address  06 c0 4c c6 aa f8, IRQ
10.
3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 becker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
--clip--
> When I ran ifconfig I got 
> lo    Link encap: Local Loopback
>       inet addr: 127.0.0.1  Mask: 255.0.0.0
>       UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU: 3924  Metric: 1
>       RX packets: 18 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
>       TX packets: 18 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
>       collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 0

if you modprobe modname and don't start the dhcpcd, you should
also be able to see the card thru the ifconfig command.

good luck, bert


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