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Hmm... I think that card should have drivers in RH9. Can you do an:
lspci -v
and post the output, just to make sure that's the actual card you have, and RH didn't just detect it wrong?
EDIT: If that really is your card, it's extremely old, and it's recommended that you don't use it. I found this at another site.
3c501
Status: Semi-Supported, Driver Name: 3c501
This obsolete stone-age 8 bit card is really too brain-damaged to use. Avoid it like the plague. Do not purchase this card, even as a joke. It's performance is horrible, and it breaks in many ways.
For those not yet convinced, the 3c501 can only do one thing at a time -- while you are removing one packet from the single-packet buffer it cannot receive another packet, nor can it receive a packet while loading a transmit packet. This was fine for a network between two 8088-based computers where processing each packet and replying took 10's of msecs, but modern networks send back-to-back packets for almost every transaction.
AutoIRQ works, DMA isn't used, the autoprobe only looks at 0x280 and 0x300, and the debug level is set with the third boot-time argument.
Once again, the use of a 3c501 is strongly discouraged! Even more so with a IP multicast kernel, as you will grind to a halt while listening to all multicast packets. See the comments at the top of the source code for more details.
Last edited by springshades; 10-03-2005 at 02:25 AM.
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. The old stone age 3Com card is at the first of the Ethernet Card List.
Have to wait for the RH 9 CD tomorrow and let see how. Sigh...
