help with new network card....

[jayhawk]

This is my first post, so- please bear with me if I sound semi-retarded.

I loaded gentoo succuessfuly (except sound, but that's another post)...

I've never really had to switch network cards after compiling, and that's where I need some assistance. I swapped out one 3com NIC for another, thinking both would use the same driver /modules- wrong, it doesn't work. If I cat /proc/pci I can see the new card, but 3c95x fails to load at boot, thus no eth0 -

can someone help to install a new NIC, post-installation?

Thanks!

[adaptr]

If the two NICs use the same driver, then yes, it should work without changing ANYTHING.

But you say "thinking they use the same driver".
Why would you think that ?

Check what exactly this card is - run "lspci" for instance.
If it is not the same (it isn't), then go to /usr/src/linux, do #make menuconfig, enable the correct driver as a module, do NOT change anything else, exit the config, and do a "make modules modules_install".

That's it.

[jayhawk]

Thanks for the quick response, it does appear that it is different-

if I cat /proc/pci :

it shows a 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [tornado]

--> I don't see those in the makeconfig menu? Is there a generic 3com driver I should use?

--->Are there other areas I need to change as well, after the menu config?

I'm pretty new with this..

[adaptr]

The driver is called "3c59x', not "3c95x", and yes, it is a generic driver for all 905 cards.

Edit your modules.autoload to correct it.

<spank>

[jayhawk]

still at boot "failed to load 3c59xx" (thus not bringing up eth0)

Any other thoughts? I used the make menu (loaded as a module), makefile, then restarted gentoo (reboot)... nuttin

if i do /etc/init.d/eth0 start

it fails....

HELP!

I know the card is there, I know it works, but it's just not cooperating at all....