Re: Anyone know hoe to configure a network card in Fedora Core 2?

From: Terry Polzin (tmpolzin_at_netscape.net)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: 7 Oct 2004 06:18:35 -0700

Georg Klein <msfree@web.de> wrote in message news:<ck1i43$5ob$1@newsreader2.netcologne.de>...
> Hi,
>
> Don (donlcl@yahoo.com) told us:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I instlled a 3COM 509TX in an already installed Fedore Core 2 system.
> > I accidentally bypassed the "Add new hardeare" wizard on boot. When
> > rebooting, the wizard no longer shows; is there a way to get it back?
> >
> > My problem isd that when I try to manually coinfigure it (using KDE)
> > via teh network configuration tool, it sees the hardware and allows me
> > to configure as eth1 upon attemtping to activate, I receive the error
> > message:
> >
> > "3c59C device eth1 does not see4m to be present, delaying
> > initialization"
>
> I guess there is no '3c59C'-driver available. Try to use '3c59x'. On the
> commandline (as root) try a 'modprobe 3c59x'. See if the module will
> load. (lsmod will show you the loaded modules). If so, you can use the
> device immediately. To have it on the next reboot, you can add an entry
> to '/etc/modules.conf' of the form:
>
> alias eth1 3c59x
>
> reboot - and everything should be done.
>
> hth
> georg

I seem to recall with FC1 and maybe FC2 there were some problems with
certian versions of 3c509s. I don't recall the exact problem. But
the answer should be on the fedora-list archive at
http://fedora.redhat.com

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