Re: Compiling 3c90x driver on Red Hat Linux 9

>On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Prashant Mahajan wrote:
>
> > I am trying to connect my PC to internet through 3 COM Ethernet card
> > 3c905CX-TX-M .
> > ...
> > As per the NIC installation document first step is to compile the driver 
>  .c
> > source file using gcc.... command.
>
>Why do you install a new driver ? What's wrong with the 3c59x driver
>provided in the RH 9 kernel ? Have you try to _not_ install the 3c90x
>driver and the network card failed to work ?

Thanks for your reply.

I did not know RH 9 provides the 3c90x driver.

The RH 9 has detected the driver. In Network Configuration->Devices and 
Hardware tab it shows the device. But I am still not able to access the 
internet. It still shows 'Inactive' status and nothing seems to happen when 
I click on 'Activate' button in the toolbar.

I also tried restarting the Network service, but it still shows,
Configured devices:
lo eth0
Currently active devices:
lo

In System Logs it shows following after Network service restart:

Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost network: Shutting down loopback interface:  
succeeded
Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost network: Bringing up loopback interface:  
succeeded
Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost ifup: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file 
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8BOOT/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0:  succeeded

Is there a way to remove the hardware from what RH 9 has detected so that I 
can go through
the 'New hardware detection' routine again ?

What do I do next to make it work?

>
>--
>Bogdan Costescu

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