NIC driver for Dell XPi port replicator?Forum: Laptops Topic: NIC driver for Dell XPi port replicator? started by: mc510 Posted by mc510 on Oct. 26 2006,17:14
I could use some help from the experts (I'm not one) ... Got an old Dell Latitude XPi P133ST laptop, with the Dell "advanced port replicator" that includes a 3Com 3C913B network controller. On autodect, DSL finds and configures eth0 (using the 3com 3c509 driver, which apparently is the right driver for this chip?), but when up and running I've got no DHCP connection to my router. So I tried this:sudo su ifdown -a modprobe 3c509 irq=10 io=300h ifup -a pump -i eth0 ... which fails. Perhaps the 3c509 driver is not right after all? Any recommendations? Any chance that I could make this work with ndiswrapper (about which I know practically nothing yet)? Posted by mc510 on Oct. 30 2006,17:02
Okay, got it ... I had to download the utilities from 3com.com, run 3c5x9cfg.exe (in DOS mode) and use it to disable Plug 'n' Play mode on the NIC. Then when I get back in DSL and do modprobe, pump, it works! BTW, the utility is on the 3com "Etherdisk II" from < http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509/3c5096.1.htm > |