New to Linux, Need help with NIC - 3COM 3c905-tx

Brian Cunningham bcunningham@toyonassociates.com
Thu Dec 3 20:18:59 1998


Hello all,

 I am new to Linux and after several hair-pulling days, I finally got 
Red Hat 5.1 installed... Whew, they weren't kidding when they said it 
was difficult.

 Anyways, I am having trouble initializing my NIC card.  I am 
using a 3Com 3C905-TX (PCI) Card.  I read a bunch of info on the 
card and new drivers and kernels and stuff, but I just got more 
confused.  Hear is what I know:

 I am running Kernel version 2.0.35, it's trying to set the irq to 0 
which I get a warning that it probably won't work.  I got a copy of the 
updated 3c59x.c file but can only find a 3c59x.o file on my system.  
However when I run ifconfig it does mention 3c59x.c.  I just can't 
figure out where this file is.  I do not have the directory structure 
/drivers/net as listed in the boomerang.html.  Any help would be 
greatly appreciated...

Thanks,

Brian Cunningham
Network Administrator, CNA
Toyon Associates
Pleasant Hill, CA
Brian Cunningham
Network Administrator
Toyon Associates, Inc.
mail to: brian@toyonassociates.com
(925)685-9312