hoary install can't detect my network card

Bryan Murdock bmurdock at gmail.com
Fri May 6 21:31:25 UTC 2005


On 5/6/05, evilrunner <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm running into the same problem with the same card on my Thinkpad T21
> while trying to install hoary.  I've already tried the pci=noacpi boot
> parameter that some other forum folk had suggested, to no avail.  The
> card is listed as supported in the hardware section, so is this a
> thinkpad bug?  Has anyone else out there gotten this to work under
> Ubuntu?  Other distros seem to pick it up just fine (DSL and Knoppix
> work), so I know it isn't the card.
> 
> Machine at issue:
> 
> IBM Thinkpad T21
> 
> 3Com 3CN3AC1556B 10/100 mini-pci network card

I have a 3Com mini PCI in my thinkpad T20.  I finally got it working
by following instructions similar to the ones now posted here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9953&postcount=3

Good luck.  Let me know how Hoary works for you.

Bryan




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