3Com 3C905B

[wayne.wan]

Wayne Pascoe wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> I've just joined this list so please excuse me if the question I'm asking is
> common knowledge...
>
> I've just replaced my 3Com 3C905 with a 3C905B... When I first tried it I
> got a hardware address of just f's (ff:ff:ff:ff).  I read some stuff and
> then disabled my pnp aware os and that sorted out the mac address... It now
> looks realistic. But I still couldn't ping anything. I checked the card
> under SCO and Windows and it works fine there... I then downloaded a new
> 3C59x.c driver dated 8/7/98... The line I got this information from was
>
> "3c59x.c:v0.99F 8/7/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html\n";
>
> I dumped this into my /usr/src/linux/drivers/net and recompiled... It still
> doesn't see the outside world....
>
> Yet if I just down the box and put the 905 in it works fine...
>
> I'd really appreciate ANY help that anyone can give wrt this...
>
> TIA
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
> Wayne Pascoe (GiT)    wpascoe@icon.co.za
>
> I've taken a vow of poverty. To annoy me, send money!

Did you change your /etc/conf.modules?  Did you make change in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts?
Try using ifconfig and route to see if the card is really connected?

Regards


Wayne Wan
wayne.wan@bigfoot.com