acording to the docs this card is in fact supported. It however is not pci nor pnp so won't be autodetected. If I remember rightly Ace You're running slackware and newer versions of that distro won't probe for an isa network card during setup. On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:17:31PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > If modprobe isn't finding your card, it may not be a card you can use, > after all. Sorry to say that, but then network cards can be had very > affordably these days. I bought a realtech 10/100 for $10 at a computer > fair some time ago, for instance. > > You might need to decide whether chasing this particular card, or just > replacing it is the smarter way to go. > > ace writes: > > Hello, > > > > I have a 3C505 Ethernet card (according to my friend who sent it to me). I > > installed the card myself and tried > > ifconfig > > and > > ifconfig eth0 > > and it said device not found. So, I went to load the module: > > 3c59x > > which is a series module for a few more cards. After doing a modprobe on > > this, I still get the same results--cannot find the device. Are there any > > other modules that need to be applied to the kernel? > > > > Thanks > > Robby > > > > Network Administrator of > > irc.talkingirc.com > > http://www.talkingirc.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer. -- Taken from a .signature from someone from the UK, source unknown
