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I'm having trouble with Linux seeing the network card in my Dell Optiples
GXPro system.  I installed the latest Slackware release (3.1).  The specs
for the system say that the network interface is "Standard 3Com integrated
networking (3C509) capability".  Has anyone had luck getting this to work
or does anyone have any idea if this is a PCI problem?

Please e-mail responses if you could.

Thanks!

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Keith McDuffee
Boston University
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems

http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/keithm/

Keith,

Use the 3C59X (Vortex) ethernet driver.  It works fine on my GXPro 200.

Regards,
   Ben

Quote:> > I'm having trouble with Linux seeing the network card in my Dell Optiples
> > GXPro system.  I installed the latest Slackware release (3.1).  The specs
> > for the system say that the network interface is "Standard 3Com integrated
> > networking (3C509) capability".  Has anyone had luck getting this to work
> > or does anyone have any idea if this is a PCI problem?

Greg
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Greg Siekas                                                    Graduate
Department of Biomedical Engineering                  Tulane University
voice:                                           New Orleans, Louisiana

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Have you tried disable PnP which comes as default with the 3c509 with
Dell.

HTH & Good Luck

William

: > > I'm having trouble with Linux seeing the network card in my Dell Optiples
: > > GXPro system.  I installed the latest Slackware release (3.1).  The specs
: > > for the system say that the network interface is "Standard 3Com integrated
: > > networking (3C509) capability".  Has anyone had luck getting this to work
: > > or does anyone have any idea if this is a PCI problem?

: If you really do have a 3c509 and not the 3c590 then use problem need to
: turn of PnP suppot for the 3c509 (which is an ISA card) and use the
: 3c509.c driver

: Greg
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: Greg Siekas                                                  Graduate
: Department of Biomedical Engineering                Tulane University
: voice:                                                 New Orleans, Louisiana

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My Dell Dimension XPS P133c with 3COM 3C509 ethernet card just works fine.
I am using Linux-2.1.14 kernel and compiled it with the 3COM 3C509 driver.

BTW, my 3COM 3C509 ethernet card is a PnP (Etherlink III?).

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