3c501 eth0 ErrorRe

On 02 Oct 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<1159749822.43116.RemoveThis@irys.nyx.net>, Bonnell Frost wrote:

>I am having trouble with making a connection to eth0 on my
>machine. Redhat 9, 2.4 something kernel, returns can't find
>3c501 device eth0. I definitely have a 3c501 driver.
>Motherboard is MCI K7N2 delta, with NVIDIA LAN port.

What on _earth_ are you trying to use that ancient card for? To quote from
the Ethernet-HOWTO

4.1.1. 3c501

Status: Semi-Supported, Driver Name: 3c501

This obsolete stone-age 8 bit card is really too brain-damaged to use.
Avoid it like the plague. Do not purchase this card, even as a joke.
It's performance is horrible, and it breaks in many ways.

It is HIGHLY unlikely that you have that card which was obsolete in the
mid-1980s, _years_ before NVidia existed. Your motherboard doesn't even
_have_ an 8-bit ISA slot to plug in that card. A fast search at google
suggests using the nVidia 2.45 drivers off the nVidia site.

>Has worked in the past, but I had to do some moves and lost the connection.
>Suggestions, please.

Start by looking at the boot messages in /var/log/messages - and look for
the card in 'lspci -vv'. You've got the wrong driver.

Old guy

In comp.os.linux.networking Juha Laiho <Juha.Laiho.TakeThisOut@iki.fi>:
> bfrost.TakeThisOut@blackhole.nyx.net (Bonnell Frost) said:
>>I am having trouble with making a connection to eth0 on my
>>machine. Redhat 9, 2.4 something kernel, returns can't find
>>3c501 device eth0. I definitely have a 3c501 driver.
>>Motherboard is MCI K7N2 delta, with NVIDIA LAN port. Has worked
>>in the past, but I had to do some moves and lost the connection.
>>Suggestions, please.

> Recheck the needed LAN driver. I'm pretty confident you cannot
> install 3c501 on that motherboard, and absolutely sure that no
> even near-current design would try to emulate 3c501.

Indeed, sounds remotely as if this adapter should work with the
forcedeth module. The OP might like to try some recent distro
including the 'forcedeth' module. His is, well somehow ancient...

I'd boot from some *recent* Knoppix CD and check what it detects.

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3Com cards are mii-tool compliant.

Install mii-tools and run:

mii-tool -r -i eth0

Peter


Bonnell Frost wrote:

> I am having trouble with making a connection to eth0 on my
> machine. Redhat 9, 2.4 something kernel, returns can't find
> 3c501 device eth0. I definitely have a 3c501 driver.
> Motherboard is MCI K7N2 delta, with NVIDIA LAN port. Has worked
> in the past, but I had to do some moves and lost the connection.
> Suggestions, please.
> Climb out of the hole for direct email.

On Sat, 07 Oct 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in
article <1366031.JELv8cYP0O DeleteThis @xbox.pelnet.net>, Peter Lowrie wrote:

>Bonnell Frost wrote:
>
>> I am having trouble with making a connection to eth0 on my
>> machine. Redhat 9, 2.4 something kernel, returns can't find
>> 3c501 device eth0. I definitely have a 3c501 driver.
>> Motherboard is MCI K7N2 delta, with NVIDIA LAN port.

>3Com cards are mii-tool compliant.

Do you have any idea how ancient the 3C501 is? The card was _obsolete_
in the late 1980s - a bit before Linux, and Donald Becker didn't think
very highly of it. See the Ethernet-HOWTO section 4.1.1.

In any case, if you read the other articles in this thread, the O/P is
quite confused, and his mother board doesn't even HAVE an ISA socket to
plug that card into. He's _actually_ got an on-board NVidia device.

Old guy