[ILUG] Dell & Linux

[John P . Looney]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:05:53PM +0000, John P . Looney mentioned:
>  I quickly ran into two problems. The NIC on the motherboard is a 3c905C -
> which isn't supported by the standard kernel (well, it seems to be; the
> module loads, and doesn't do anything). So, after downloading 3Com's own
> driver from their web page, I set about compiling it. Took a while. And
> now it's loaded. When I type "ifconfig eth0 inet a.b.c.d up", I get
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device

 Seems i'm not the only one to have such problems:
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-vortex/2000-Jun/0001.html

Kate

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