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On 10/28/2009 8:09 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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>> On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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>>>> I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got |
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>>>> similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a "3Com |
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>>>> Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)" and that "Kernel driver |
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>>>> in use: 3c59x". Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for |
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>>>> that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for |
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>>>> similar cards (one of which had "[Typhoon]" in the name). |
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>>>> However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything |
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>>>> works great. Thanks for all your help. |
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>>>> Marcus |
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>>> Now I'm confused. I did a search here as well and it returned nothing |
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>>> matching that driver. This is a first for me. Has anyone else ever |
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>>> searched for a driver when you have the exact name and not get a match |
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>>> when the driver is actually there? I did a manual search and the driver |
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>>> is there. |
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>>> Glad you got the network working tho. |
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>>> Dale |
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>>> :-) :-) |
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>> Yeah, I guess it's because you have to download that particular driver |
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>> separately? |
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>> Marcus |
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> It's in the kernel tho. This appears to be the one: |
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> 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support |
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> The help screen lists your card. Just weird to me. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Oh, now it makes sense that my card worked with that driver. Come to |
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think of it, I didn't even know that each menuconfig option had its own |
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help message...that could have come in handy. |
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Marcus |
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