Re: Gateway Solo's ethernet card

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:17:53PM +0900, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> I've got a wonderful laptop computer, Gateway Solo 3150. (Not my own
> :-( I installed RedHat 6.2, everything is great except for its
> built-in ethernet card.
> 
> I found somewhere on the Net that the card is 3Com Hurricane 3c555
> which is a version of 3c905b Cyclone card. Don't know if it is true
> though.
> 
> There's a Linux Solo FAQ at
> http://www.uni-essen.de/~mat930/solo3100.htm. It says that a 3cxxx
> driver should work. Well, it doesn't.

Maybe Gateway changed the networking chipset from under your feet. It won't
be the first time manufacturers changed hardware without telling anybody. 

Did you check dmesg for messages from the driver?

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Shimpei Yamashita                   <http://www2.gol.com/users/shimpei/>