WiFi FC3, laptop

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 24 17:47:25 UTC 2004


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, php4u wrote:

> Recently, I upgraded FC2 to FC3 on my Compaq 2580US. I am very pleased with some of the enhancements.
> 
> I have a built-in WiFi card, and hoped it would get picked up, but it didn't. The NIC did and I have connectivity on my LAN.
> Eth0 = National Semi Conductor DP883815
> Eth1 = 3Com 3c501
> 
> When I try to "activate" Eth1, i get the following error; "3c501 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."
> 
> >From the following error message, I guess I will make some adjustments to the kernel?
> ------------
> Command failed: /sbin/modprobe 3c501
> Output:
> FATAL: Error inserting 3c501 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/kernel/drivers/net/3c501.ko): no such device
> --------------

How about posting '/sbin/lspci'?

Satish




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