[Gllug] Debian woody and lost network device

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Mon Oct 25 09:34:00 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:14:39AM +0100, Martin wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:03 +0200, Nordlund, Niko wrote:
> 
> > 01:040.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink]
> > (rev 78)
> 
> Here's your network card. You'll want the "Vortex" 3com driver compiled
> in to your kernel.

There's no need to compile it in if it can be compiled as a module.
This may indeed have already happened, so do check /lib/modules for the
3c59x module.  If this is present, then it can be loaded at any time
using modprobe and loaded at boot by adding the line "3c59x" to
/etc/modules.

-- 
Bruce

Explota!: miles de lemmings no pueden estar equivocados.
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