Re: 3C509B

[Joseph Begumisa <begj at psg.com>]

I have no problem with this.  My email was in response to Alfred Omondi's
problem with the 3C509B card which has since been resolved.

Have a nice day.

Joseph
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, David Chima wrote:

> Hello Joseph,
> I think try the following
>
> 1. As root type on the prompt: linuxconf
> 2. If this is your first time to use command linuxconf, just highlight quit and press enter to quit the
> greeting message. Then you will be in the other graphical window and jist follow this:
> press config ---> Networking ---> Client Tasks ---> Host name and IP Devices.
> 3. you will be taken into another window where you will see your IP numbers and Machine name +
> 	domain. Go where there is Net Device and the entry there should be eth0. ANd on Kernel
> Module the entry should be either 3c509 or 3c59x or you can just bring the cursor there and
> just press Control Key + key X together for you to choose the module of you list. The best is
> to choose the 3com series kernel module. or any module that is close the the module 	indicated
> on your card.
>
> I hope this will help.
>
> By the way why don't you install Red 7.2 or 7.3, I also hear there is a new release of Redhat 8.0
>
> Regards
>
> David
> > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Alfred Omondi Orimbo wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hallo all,
> > > I have just installed Redhat 6.2 and it is failing to see my ethernet card. the card is
> > > 3com 3C509B. I have tried probing it but not seen still. Anybody aware of compatibility
> > > issue of redhat 6.2 with this card??
> > >
> > > alfred.
> >
> > Unless you really must run redhat 6.2, i think you should be looking at
> > something more recent which i guess (i do not use redhat) should be having
> > recent software and bug fixes for earlier software already incorporated in
> > it.  I think it also has a tool called kudzu which can help you in
> > detecting hardware.  You could also try the lspci command to list all PCI
> > devices if it is a pci device and see whether it can be seen by the
> > system.
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> >
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