On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:16:59PM -0500, fredex wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:55:43AM -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote:
I just upgraded a running FC2 system to FC3, and everything seemed to go smoothly except that I lost network connectivity via a slightly aged but still functional 3C509B NIC. I've tried reactivating it via the Network config program, but while its existence is acknowledged, it doesn't respond to my requests to start interfacing. Since the only access to the world beyond my home office is via that network card, it reduces the value of that system substantially. Has anyone else run into (and gone beyond) this problem?
RH doesn't seem to distribute the binary driver for those old ISA network cards anymore. much to my chagrin. I've got a half-dozen or so 3c509b-tpo cards around here. Last time I looked they did distribute the source, still, so you could build the module yourself if you wanted to.
I'm not having any problem with my 3c509 card. It is not detected by Kudzu or Anaconda, but system-config-network configures it correctly and it works just fine under FC3.
Just another data point.