Unable to use 3c905-tx on pavilion 4450 with Red Hat 9

pgromada · 10-30-2005, 10:57 AM

Hi - I just got a free HP Pavilion 4450 desktop, it came with Win98 and 128K Ram, and a 8.4 GB hard drive. I tested the PC before installing Linux, and the Ethernet card was working. I then installed Red Hat 9 Sever and when completed the Ethernet adapter is unable to get a DHCP IP address. I'm completely new to Linux. I also tried another working Netgear card same results.

Thanks

Tinkster · 10-30-2005, 11:38 AM

Hi,

and welcome to LQ!

Is the card being detected in terms of hardware?
What output do you get when you enter lspci (as root)
in a terminal? The card is acutally quite well supported.

And do you know which tool RH9 uses to obtain a
dhcp lease (assuming that you actually used the RH
wizard thingy to tell the installation to use DHCP).

Cheers,
Tink