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Borb

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Registered: 2006-02-12

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3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated NIC

I have a 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated NIC integrated in my Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. How can I get it to work? Arch put some lines in the rc.conf to start eth0 but that failed on startup.

I googled it for quite a while and found references to a 3C59X driver. Is that what I need to use?

Thanks in advance for any help

xtrailz

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2006-01-13

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Re: 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated NIC

I have the same board, and it has 2 NICs.

eth0 = nvidia
eth1 = 3COM

so if you get an IP from DHCP try (from the commandline)

dhcpcd eth1
ifconfig

and see if you have an IP, and then edit your rc.conf to do this automatically ...

eth1="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 eth1)

good luck!

Borb

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Registered: 2006-02-12

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Re: 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated NIC

Oh so, it did work natively for you? The rc.conf was trying to enable eth0 before I had the nforce drivers installed so that would probably explain why that didn't work. I will try enabling eth1 now. Thanks

Borb

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Registered: 2006-02-12

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Re: 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated NIC

That worked, although my 3Com is eth0. Thanks

xtrailz

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2006-01-13

Posts: 7

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Re: 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated NIC

Yeah, it must have something to do with the order that drivers are loaded.

My 3COM NIC used to be eth0 but then flipped to eth1 after a recent kernel upgrade.