I have an old Toshiba Satellite which I just installed VectorLinux 4.3 on... I love the new release...

It's a 200 MHz MMX, 32 MB RAM... I need to up it to 64.. but it works okay with the 32.. I can even play SuperTux.. which is the COOLEST GAME!! LOL.. it's the first time I've ever played it...

Anyways... I have a 3Com NIC, model 3CXFE575BT which should be supported... But I can't get it to do anything.. It has worked in every other distro from Red Hat to OpenBSD... as well as standard Slack.. so I don't understand what's up here...

I have used AUTOSET under VASM... and it does tell me that it set up the NIC...

When I try to do "ifconfig eth0 up" I get "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy"

I do get a listing of eth0, and this is the results..

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Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:86:38:BF:BF
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Base address:0x4000

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When the laptop is booting up, here's the message it says...

Starting PCMCIA services:
<probing for PCIC: edit /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia>
Disabling IRQ #11
cardmgr[384]: watching 2 sockets
cardmgr[385]: starting, version is 3.2.5
Setting up the NET subsystem....
Attempting to configure eth0 by contacting DHCP server....
Setting up CDROM
blah blah blah...

Does this mean anything?? When I boot up with my Linksys wireless card.. it works just fine... and actually says that it's a WPC11 and stuff... any help is much appreciated!! Thanks!

(if this needs to be moved, that's fine.. the vector forum just seemed pretty inactive...)

P.S. - After much searching, most says the answer is to disable Plug & Play in the BIOS... however, there is no setting for plug and play in these BIOS. This is the most simple/basic BIOS I have ever seen... 2 pages.. about 5 things you can change...