Ethernet Card

[Alex Snow]

acording to the docs this card is in fact supported. It however is not 
pci nor pnp so won't be autodetected. If I remember rightly Ace You're 
running slackware and newer versions of that distro won't probe for an 
isa network card during setup.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:17:31PM -0500, 
Janina Sajka wrote:
> If modprobe isn't finding your card, it may not be a card you can use,
> after all. Sorry to say that, but then network cards can be had very
> affordably these days. I bought a realtech 10/100 for $10 at a computer
> fair some time ago, for instance.
> 
> You might need to decide whether chasing this particular card, or just
> replacing it is the smarter way to go.
> 
> ace writes:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a 3C505 Ethernet card (according to my friend who sent it to me).  I 
> > installed the card myself and tried
> > ifconfig
> > and
> > ifconfig eth0
> > and it said device not found.  So, I went to load the module:
> > 3c59x
> > which is a series module for a few more cards.  After doing a modprobe on 
> > this, I still get the same results--cannot find the device.  Are there any 
> > other modules that need to be applied to the kernel?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Robby
> > 
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