Ethernet device sit0

[Dave Johnson]

Jim Kuzdrall writes:
> On Saturday 29 April 2006 10:14 am, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> > That laptop reportedly has
> > a 3c905 Enet so theoretically most Linux distributions should
> 
>     Yes, I had YaST do its hardware search then save the results in a 
> file.  The file had "3Com.3C920" buried in a long string of other 
> device names, but it never showed up in the GUI listing of the results.
> 
> > output of dmesg?
> 
>     dmesg | grep -i showed nothing for warn or error.  But, boot.msg did 
> say "eth-id-00:06:07:00:1b:67 No interface found".
> 
>     I checked the installed software.  All the network stuff appears to 
> be installed.  I will check some more.  I have to shut down to see if 
> the networking has to be enabled in BIOS.  I don't remember that being 
> so, but...
> 
> Jim Kuzdrall
> 

There are various NIC options in the C400 bios:

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1062407&l=en&langid=1&c=us&cs=&s=gen


If none of those helps, make sure the 3c59x kernel module is loaded
(or CONFIG_VORTEX is enabled statically).

'lspci' of couse will also reveal what if anything is actually there.


-- 
Dave