New NIC isn't detected by Linux!?

[Brian Densmore]

Do you have an option in the BIOS setup to manually select/setup
interrupts/non-PNP cards? If so, that is what you want to do. also you might
try recompiling the kernel and include the 3Com driver in the kernel (not as
a module). That is what I do with my 3c590 (it doesn't like being a module).

-----Original Message-----
From: jared [mailto:jared at mail.ru]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:50 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: New NIC isn't detected by linux!?

I've narrowed the problem down to the PnP motherboard that I'm using.
Apparently even though i turn off plug & play, It still inits all of the PnP
cards at startup, which makes it hard for unix to detect the cards.  Stupid
Asus :(
Any ideas?

----- Original Message -----
From: jared <mailto:jared at mail.ru>
To: kclug at kclug.org <mailto:kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 7:44 PM
Subject: New NIC isn't detected by linux!?

I have tried to install both Debian 2.2 and Redhat 7.0 and neither of them
will take use of my 3com 509b NIC.  This card used to be used in another
debian machine of mine and i KNOW that I have selected the proper module for
the debian installation, which says it has successfully been installed.
After I reboot the machine and login, "ifconfig" does not report a running
eth0 and there are no /dev/eth* entries.   If anybody has any clue what is
wrong here, please let me know.  As of now, my only idea is to try to save
up to replace the motherboard.

Jared