[ILUG] Dell & Linux

[McAuley, Tim]

I haven't used Debian but it is supported On Redhat 6.2 for sure.

We have a 3c509c in one of our Linux boxes, and it works fine. I didn't have
to do any tweaking when I set the machine up.

The message I get in /var/log/dmesg is

3c59x.c:v0.99H 27May00 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/$
eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0x1000,  00:50:da:12:b2:5d, IRQ 11
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

The initial kernel was 2.2.14, but it is now running 2.2.16.

We have a Redhat 6.1 machine here as well with a 3c509 (B - I think) and
that works fine as well. It does not show up in the dmesg log though. That
is running 2.2.12.

I can't really give you any suggestions, but maybe that information might
help you.

Good luck,

Tim


> 
>  Just got me a shiny new black GX150 yesterday. And whipped 
> out my Debian
> 2.2 CD's, and got going. 
> 
>  I quickly ran into two problems. The NIC on the motherboard 
> is a 3c905C -
> which isn't supported by the standard kernel (well, it seems 
> to be; the
> module loads, and doesn't do anything). So, after downloading 
> 3Com's own
> driver from their web page, I set about compiling it. Took a 
> while. And
> now it's loaded. When I type "ifconfig eth0 inet a.b.c.d up", I get
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device