Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:47:16 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: 3c515 ??? |
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Hi Horst.
>>> 1. I recently picked up a 486dx2/50 based workstation base, with >>> no expansion slots, and a networking connector on the back >>> panel that is clearly wired directly to the motherboard. It's >>> not a big system - 8M of RAM and a 430M hard drive - but would >>> be more than sufficient for a print server, which is what I >>> want it for.
> I'd just try every 10Mbit Ethernet module (with a variety of IO > settings) to see if one finds it. That's what I've done with > mistery cards (most turned out NE2000 clones, BTW; some with > screwy IO ranges).
I've since created a network kitchen sink 2.2.10 kernel (one with ALL of the network drivers hard compiled in), and the driver that accepts and id's the card is...
Q> AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support
...but, for some reason, the same driver in RedHat 6.0 doesn't work.
Any clues here?
Best wishes from Riley.
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