problems with 3Com NIC/6500

[nathan r. hruby]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Michael Graham wrote:

> Allan,
> I have a 3com card (3c905) and works great. There are no drivers for any
> 3com cards for the MacOS. The stock kernel for YDL 2.3 doesnšt have the 3com
> drivers complied in or set as modules. So, youšll have to compile a new
> kernel with the drivers.
> 

?  

I have a 3c905 in a 9600 and it worked just like any other ethernet card 
both during the install and after.  No recompiling needed.

[nathan@athe1 nathan]$ dmesg | grep 3c
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
01:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xff7fe800. Vers LK1.1.16

[nathan@athe1 nathan]$ uname -a
Linux athe1.drama.uga.edu 2.4.19-4asmp #1 SMP Wed Jun 5 00:59:38 EDT 2002 
ppc unknown
[nathan@athe1 nathan]$ 

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