rr setup problems

[Warren Togami]

The driver on 3Com's site is for the old 2.2 kernel.  Redhat 7.1 has the new
2.4.x kernel... but their kernel should support your network card just fine.
It may take some tweaking to make it work.

It sounds like your Ethernet kernel module that came with Redhat 7.1 isn't
working.  Looking in the kernel configuration options I see this.

""Boomerang" (EtherLink XL 3c900 or 3c905)            PCI"

That's the only mention of 3Com EtherLink XL that I can find.   If this is
the correct driver, then "modprobe 3c59x" should load the driver.
You can manually run the DHCP client with "pump", then see if networking is
working with ping.

What error messages do you see?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Zachary Lockhart" <lockhartc001 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: [luau] rr setup problems


> Hiya,  I recently (like a week or so ago) installed RH7.1 on my machine
and
> am having a really wonderful time trying to setup for roadrunner.  I used
> the network config tool to setup eth0, and I think I did it right (it
wasn't
> real complicated), but on boot I keep getting eth0 failed, and no
> connectivity.  I'm guessing that the ethernet card isn't setup right/at
all
> (I guess I've be spoiled/soiled by windows).  I'm using the 3Com Etherlink
> XL TPO ethernet card that Oceanic installed.  I went to 3Com's site and
> downloaded the driver stuff that I needed, but of course it didn't run:
> it's wanting a 2.2x kernel, rh7.1 is using a 2.4x kernel.  It just dies,
> with it's last words being that I'm not running the right kernel for it,
and
> that I need to build the module myself.  So, I tried building the module
> myself (they provide you with a couple of scripts with everything in it),
> and of course that failed.  Interestingly enough, one of the errors it
> sounded off about was in spinlock.h, which I thought would have pertained
to
> an SMP system (mine is a single up system, which is what I was compiling
> for), but I get a bunch of other errors/warnings as well.
>
> So can somebody throw me a bone here?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> -Charles
>