Why would a NIC card NOT be recognized?

[Kevin M. Gleason]

Hi Jerry,

They are 3Com Etherlink III ISA 10BaseT cards that are not recognized when
eth0 is loaded. All machines are identically configured with the exact same
kernels and modules. They were previously configured with Windows 95 and all
could ping and be pinged, but when I converted them to Linux...they appear
dead. When I run ifconfig, I only see the loopback 127.0.0.1 and not the
eth0 address.


Jerry Feldman wrote:

> First, what are the NICs?
> Second, are all these systems similarly hardware configured?
> Could very well be that you have an IRQ conflict.
> Third, are all these systems running the same kernel and modules.
>
> When they boot up, do they not recognize the NIC?
> On 20 Mar 2001, at 8:26, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:
>
> > I'm currently running a linux network at school on 15 Compaq 100 mhz
> > machines and about 5 won't recognize the NIC card (and therefore won't
> > recognize the network). I've tried swapping the NICs with other peer
> > machines and they work flawlesslessly, I've tried swapping cables and
> > again, no problem. I've run out of possible problems....
> >
> >
> >           anyone have a thought I can research?
> >
> > Kevin
> >
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