Linux problem with 3Com lan (FIXED!)

[Carrot44]

I have the Asus P4P800 board and I cant get the 3Com driver to work with Red Hat Linux 9 Any body got ideas or gotten it to work?

Ken

 

[sciencewhiz]

Your first problem is that there is no Redhat 9.2. Do you have Redhat 9 or Mandrake 9.2, or something else?

What does lspci -v tell you about your network card?

 

[Carrot44]

Linux Red Hat 9 then

What is happening is when I run make load according to the drivers instructions it faults at insmod 3c2000.o says error 127 can't find
insmod

Get back with ya on the other command about the card

 

[JustMike]

You need to be root and have "/sbin" in your path, otherwise fully qualify the call to "insmod" like this:

/sbin/insmod <module name>

 

[Carrot44]

Ok give that a quick try
But lspci -v it says no such command. Probably the same thing there. Dang I need a Linux book!

So kinda like DOS unless it is in a PATH statement it will only work from the DIR it is in.
Anybody got a link to where I can find all the Linux commands. Yea I know google it!

 

[JustMike]

What user are you trying to do this as? You must be root and must be in a "proper" root environment ("su -")

 

[Carrot44]

I am at root "su"

Got the drivers properly loaded and it grabed my proper internet settings but I can not activate it.
Did notice it keeps wanting to Call the onboard 3Com chip a 3C501 Unless that is a Card that uses that chip.

Closer anyway

 

[Carrot44]

I got it working Yippppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
But........... Everytime I reboot have to retype /sbin/insmod 3c2000.o what can I do so that does not need to be done?

Ken

 

[Nothinman]

When you become root use 'su -' not just 'su' and you'll get a proper PATH setup.

If you add 'alias eth0 3c2000' to /etc/modules.conf that _should_ do it, but I make no guarantees as I'm rusty on how RH does things.

 

[JustMike]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
If you add 'alias eth0 3c2000' to /etc/modules.conf that _should_ do it, but I make no guarantees as I'm rusty on how RH does things.

As long as the module is installed properly, that will should work fine.

 

[Carrot44]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
When you become root use 'su -' not just 'su' and you'll get a proper PATH setup.

If you add 'alias eth0 3c2000' to /etc/modules.conf that _should_ do it, but I make no guarantees as I'm rusty on how RH does things.

Ok how do I add alias eth0 3c2000? It is read only and I don't want to change the attributes.

Ken

 

[Nothinman]

Ok how do I add alias eth0 3c2000? It is read only and I don't want to change the attributes.

It's read-only because of rights, you need to edit it as root.

 

[Carrot44]

That is what I figured but what can I use to edit it with?

 

[Nothinman]

If you use 'su -' to become root you might be able to run gedit or something to edit it. I usually use vi, but I assume you don't know vi yet.

 

[Carrot44]

Never heard of vi but have the other.

I used Linux Red Hat many moons ago. I know some distros are probably easier then Red Hat but that is what I am used too.

Will give that a try today. Even got Yahoo messenger working Not a clone but the real messenger

Thanks

 

[Carrot44]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
If you use 'su -' to become root you might be able to run gedit or something to edit it. I usually use vi, but I assume you don't know vi yet.

That worked! but it still will not activate eth0 on start up. Do I have to put in the full path?

Gurrrrrrrrr

 

[Nothinman]

Does eth0 try to startup or does it skip it?

 

[Carrot44]

It tries to start up but says something about shutting down and delaying start up

 

[Nothinman]

Was there an alias eth0 line in modules.conf before the one you added?

 

[Carrot44]

alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias sound-slot-0 audigy
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
No and I tried it with and without the .o

pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias eth0 3c2000.o
alias eth0 3c501
options 3c501 irq=3

 

[Nothinman]

Why is the alias eth0 3c501 still in there, delete it and I bet it works.

I would have assumed the module tools would use the first alias line, but I guess it uses the last one.

 

[Carrot44]

will do

 

[Carrot44]

No go

 

[sciencewhiz]

where is 3c2000.o located?

if it is in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/<something> then try removing the .o

 

[Carrot44]

It is located in a tmp folder? Take me forever to find /something