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Linux problem with 3Com lan (FIXED!)

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Carrot44

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

/sbin/insmod <module name>
 
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!
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
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As long as the module is installed properly, that will should work fine.
 
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.
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Ok how do I add alias eth0 3c2000? It is read only and I don't want to change the attributes.

Ken
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
Click to expand...


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

Gurrrrrrrrr
 
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
 
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.
 
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