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3Com Network interface card don't work

i'm using 3Com OfficeConnect 10/100 Network Interface Card(3CSOHO100B-TX). when i was trying to detect it but can't. why didn't detect it to connect internet?

Re: 3Com Network interface card don't work

Quote:

Originally posted by Mathsniper
i'm using 3Com OfficeConnect 10/100 Network Interface Card(3CSOHO100B-TX). when i was trying to detect it but can't. why didn't detect it to connect internet?

From a quick Google Linux it appears that card uses the tulip module for some strange reason so do you see it listed when you use lsmod in a console/console window. BTW we really need more information on what you did to try and get it going, what kernel you are running (uname -r in a console/console window), what is the contents of the /etc/network/interfaces file, the output of (ifconfig -a in a console/console window) ... things like that the more detail the better. To get the information so you can post it here use these commands in a console/console window as root and have a formatted floppy in the drive.

Code:

ifconfig -a > ifconfig.txt

lsmod > lsmod.txt

uname -r > uname.txt

dmesg | grep eth > dmesg.txt

mount /dev/fd0 /floppy

cp *.txt /floppy

cp /etc/network/interfaces /floppy

umount /floppy

the list at google linux of ethernet 3com that isn't english so much. i'm chinese so wanna get more english's detail about it.

I has been finding http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/2...rs/pci/pci.ids about 3CSOHO100B-TX at patch. is that Kernel v2.6.2 /drivers/pci/ have 3CSOHO100B-TX driver for debian?

Quote:

Originally posted by Mathsniper
the list at google linux of ethernet 3com that isn't english so much. i'm chinese so wanna get more english's detail about it.

Not quite sure what you mean by that could you be a little clearer what you require. I was directing you to http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...08.2/0272.html item in the list provided by the google search which appears to say that your card uses the tulip module as the driver for the network card. When you use the lsmod command you should see output like this.

Code:

>$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

nvidia              4819316  12

apm                    17636  2

snd_via82xx            19556  1

snd_ac97_codec        66116  1 snd_via82xx

snd_pcm_oss            49448  0

snd_mixer_oss          17440  2 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm                83240  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss

snd_timer              20100  1 snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc          9032  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm

snd_mpu401_uart        5792  1 snd_via82xx

snd_rawmidi            19460  1 snd_mpu401_uart

snd_seq_device          6440  1 snd_rawmidi

snd                    45636  9 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

soundcore              6848  2 snd

uhci_hcd              29264  0

via686a                17832  0

i2c_sensor              2304  1 via686a

i2c_isa                1600  0

i2c_core              18832  3 via686a,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa

ns558                  4608  0

sidewinder            11712  0

joydev                  7936  0

gameport                3520  3 snd_via82xx,ns558,sidewinder

parport_pc            26464  1

lp                      8616  0

parport                33832  2 parport_pc,lp

tulip                  37440  0

crc32                  3808  1 tulip

You can see here that my card also uses the tulip module and is in use. The output of the ifconfig -a looks like this when configured.

Code:

>$ su

Password:

[HappyTux:/home/stephen]# ifconfig -a

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:A7:17:E0:59

          inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:68763 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:77773 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:155141

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:38741202 (36.9 MiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc800



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:23952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:23952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:4218585 (4.0 MiB)  TX bytes:4218585 (4.0 MiB)

The configuration of the network card is done through the /etc/network/interfaces file my file for example.

Code:

[HappyTux:/home/stephen]# cat /etc/network/interfaces

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)



# The loopback interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback



# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation

# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)

auto eth0





iface eth0 inet static

        address 192.168.0.1

        netmask 255.255.255.0

        network 192.168.0.0

        broadcast 192.168.0.255

        gateway 192.168.0.254

My file here is using static settings which means that I use a set IP for the address. It can look like this if you use DHCP to get your address from a server on the network.

Code:

[HappyTux:/home/stephen]# cat /etc/network/interfaces

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)



# The loopback interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback



# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation

# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)

auto eth0





iface eth0 inet dhcp

We are going to need the information I requested above to see these things in order to be able to help you and you will need to provide some details on how you get your connection to the internet from your Internet Service Provider and what steps you need to know about to enable you to connect.

Quote:

Originally posted by Mathsniper
I has been finding http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/2...rs/pci/pci.ids about 3CSOHO100B-TX at patch. is that Kernel v2.6.2 /drivers/pci/ have 3CSOHO100B-TX driver for debian?

It appears so have you went to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and tried installing with the new installer it will have a better chance of detecting your hardware and give you a more up to date system. If you do then when you get to the boot: prompt type in linux26 then enter key which will boot and use a 2.6 kernel for the install.

Quote:

Originally posted by HappyTux
It appears so have you went to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and tried installing with the new installer it will have a better chance of detecting your hardware and give you a more up to date system. If you do then when you get to the boot: prompt type in linux26 then enter key which will boot and use a 2.6 kernel for the install.

couldn't setup ethernet from kernel 2.6 when i installed debian?

I has been installed kernel2.6.7, but also can't setup the network interface card of 3com. in addition, failed configuration of DHCP... how to setup it?