Re: 3com nic

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Marty Landman wrote:
> Newbie here.
>
> Just installing RH Linux 9 from the CD's, seems to boot up ok from the 
> floppy but my 3com nic doesn't seem to be running. It worked fine when 
> the box (PII-200, 64MB ram) was running W98, like yesterday. :)

You didn't say what kind of 3Com NIC you have.  Have you verified that
there's a driver installed?  As the root user:

	ifconfig -a

You should see something like this (a fully-configured interface,
reformatted for readability):

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:B3:5C:EC:08
          inet addr:64.7.196.71  Bcast:64.7.196.127
		Mask:255.255.255.192
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7019842 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6548179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:1482333785 (1413.6 Mb)
		TX bytes:3828536428 (3651.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000 Memory:e9100000-e9100038

The "addr:" bit indicates the IP address for the card.  If you don't
see something like this, then verify you have a line in
/etc/modules.conf that looks like:

	alias eth0 3c9xx

If you don't, you need to give us some more data.  As the root user,
give us the output of the following commands:

	lspci | grep thernet
	cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth0
	lsmod
	cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

(the "|" is the shifted "\" [backslash] key, called a "pipe").  We can
help you out more with that data.
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