[Gllug] Isa Ethernet Card + X

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 23 Dec, m1k3oh wrote:
> 
> So there I was at work, on Tuesday, with these two 3com Ethernet Cards (ISA) given to 
> me by our Tech Team.
> 
> As soon as I arrived home, I ripped open my Quad Boot System and inserted the 3com (3c
> 509b) Card into the only
> available Isa slot (The other been hijacked by my Graphics Card).
> Win2K detected it straightaway.
> After assigning an IP address to this machine and connecting a cross-over cable, I pro
> mptly tried Telneting to
> my Old Laptop running Debian. Yipee!  It works. Due to Win2k's authentication method, 
> I was unable to Telnet
> from Debian to Win2K. No Worries!   I try Ftp'ing into Win2K. Yipee!  That works too.
> 
> Since Tuesday, I've left my system running in the Win2K partition, while I played arou
> nd with my ultra mini
> Network.
> 
> You can therefore imagine my utter disbelief, this evening, when I logged into my SuSE
> 7.3 Partition only to
> find my Mouse not working. That's cool.  Debian has taught me howto get things done at
>  the Command Line. I
> only started PANICKING when I logged into my Redhat7.1 Partition and realised that it 
> too was experiencing
> problems with X. It detected the new Ethernet Card, helped set-up the IP address etc. 
> then continued the boot
> up process. It then started these series of flickers when it was about to ask for my U
> sername/Password.
> 
> Now ordinarily.. I'm as cool as a cucumber for a Linux Newbie, But when I'm disallowed
>  full and total access
> on my OWN box... I begin to panic.
> 
> Guys, Girls... What do I do?
> 
   Could this be a problem with M$ plug-n-pray altering the parameters for
the graphics card to suit the ethernet card?

-- 
Chris Bell


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