Re: [PLUG] Libranet, 3c900B card

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> I also had an interesting experience with a 3Com NIC.  My old NIC was
> getting flaky so I wanted to replace it before doing the new install.  We're
> still using coax wiring, and PCI NICs with coax (BNC) connectors are hard to
> find.  Fortunately, a local store had a 3c900B card, which has both BNC and
> Cat5 connectors.  I installed it, it worked fine under windows, and Libranet
> detected and loaded the module for it ("3c59x", I believe), but there was no
> connectivity.  I switched back to my old card (uses the "tulip" driver) and

Watch out. The modem manufacturerers will change the chipset and keep the
name the same. There's a bit of confusion on this. I had troubles w/ same
card (built-in to mobo in my case).

I looked on this page:

 http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html

It will explain what you need to do. I think I ended up building a new
kernel and it worked just fine.

Fred

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