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Old 09-06-2003, 02:04 AM   #1
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I want to run RH9, but having trouble configuring NIC


Its an integrated 3Com Gigabit NIC on an Asus P4P800 Deluxe motherboard. I cannot get RH9 to see it. I can't get any of the other 3Com NICs that RH9 has available to function either.

Is anyone running a P4P800 Deluxe and RH9 that could help me out?
 
Old 09-08-2003, 01:05 AM   #2
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Does the NIC show up in dmesg? What does it say? How about lspci?
 
Old 09-08-2003, 01:44 PM   #3
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No, its not detected at all during the installation. And when I attempt to install it using RH9's utils9 (Can't remember the name), there is a list of NICs that RH supports, none of which function with my 3Com 3C2000 NIC.
 
Old 09-08-2003, 01:53 PM   #4
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How about lspci?
 
Old 09-09-2003, 11:10 AM   #5
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Question Similar problems....great desire to fix and learn!

I'm having similar problems with a P4P800 (non-deluxe), RH9. Actually, the problem is two-fold:
I've had problems getting X to run due to known issues with NVidia drivers and kernel versions per this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/85636

After updating the kernel to 2.4.20-20.9 (which is required for the Nvidia drivers) I have to reload the NIC drivers. However, the onboard drivers will not install properly with "make load" or "insmod 3c2000.o" because 3c2000.o is compiled for 2.4.20-8. Alright, fine-- I have another NIC installed, a 3c95x, that I can use until X is fixed, then bump back to the other kernel and reinstall the 3c940 onboard. However, I ifconfig does not recognize eth0 (the 3c940 onboard) or eth1 (the 3c95x). "Ifconfig" produces no ethenet card at all, just "lo" for local loopback. Attempting either "ifconfig eth1 up" or "ifconfig eth0 up" produces "unknown interface: No such device". I'm pretty lost at this point. "Lspci" shows both ethernet controllers, one as "Unknown Device 1700" and the other as "3c905b" correctly-- I just can't get it to work!

Any help would be very highly appreciated and keep in mind that I'm exclusively limited to text mode since X won't run yet.

Thank you far in advance!
 
Old 09-11-2003, 02:18 AM   #6
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Hmmm, I never messed with the linux drivers that came on the P4P8000 driver CD. Linux drivers are bitch to understand. Yeah, I'm a newbie.

I tossed in an old Linksys NIC into my desktop rig, which RH9 saw and configured correctly upon boot up.

I'm going to mess with installing the ATI Linux Radeon 9600 Pro drivers now. The file I just DLed from RH is an RPM file.
 
Old 09-12-2003, 10:45 AM   #7
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Should someone knowledgable happen to stuble upon this thread, here is some (hopefully) useful output:

"service network status" yields:

Configured Devices:
lo eth0 eth1

Currently active devices:
lo

"ethtool eth0" and "ethtool eth1" yeild:
Cannot get settings for device, no such device
No data available

My /etc/modules.conf reads:

alias eth0 3c2000
alias eth1 3c95x
alias char-major-195 nvidia

The 2000c won't work because of the kernel version and I can't find souce to compile for my kernel. However, why the 3c905b card doesn't work is a mystery.

Thanks still >>BD
 
Old 09-12-2003, 07:49 PM   #8
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Why don't you just disable the onboard (integrated) NIC and go buy yourself a $10.00 Realtek NIC and plug it in?
 
Old 09-12-2003, 09:31 PM   #9
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Why don't you just disable the onboard (integrated) NIC and go buy yourself a $10.00 Realtek NIC and plug it in?
I gave up and stuck in my old Linksys NIC. I just would have rathered use the integrated Gigabite ethernet and keep a PCI slot free.
 
Old 09-12-2003, 09:51 PM   #10
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booo... I had a problem similar to yours, but I didn't have any more PCI slots left so I had to configure RH to recognize my Broadcom 440 onboard NIC... It works!

Take a look at the thread "Broadcom 4400 .. kernel headers" on how I did it. Maybe the 10 steps will help you too.

You'll need to download the linux src.rpm file for the Gigabit NIC card from 3com, I'm sure the src.rpm is on their site somewhere.

Last edited by LooseCanon; 09-12-2003 at 09:52 PM.
 
Old 09-13-2003, 07:43 AM   #11
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I know installing a pci NIC was a work-around and not in the true spirit determining the exact problem, but.

Look on the bright side,

You have lan/internet connectivity so solving the problem to get the integrated adapter to work will be less of a hassle. Whenever you finally figure out the problem yank the pci nic. :-)
 
  


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