3Com 3C905B

[Wayne Pascoe]

I have compiled the card into the kernel, not as a module... Does this make
any difference ?
I havve checked ifconfig and the card is there. I can even ping it's IP
address (192.168.0.1) and get a response.

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Wayne Pascoe (GiT)    wpascoe@icon.co.za

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-----Original Message-----
From: wayne.wan <wayne.wan@bigfoot.com>
To: Wayne Pascoe <wpascoe@icon.co.za>
Cc: linux-vortex-bug@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
<linux-vortex-bug@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue Sep  8 09:34:16 1998
Subject: Re: 3Com 3C905B


>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
>>
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>> 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
>
>