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by kwhit

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I have Linux 6.2 loaded on my IBM Thinkpad laptop (A20M). I had to use text mode because the GUI wouldn't work. It did not load up my network card which is a 3Com 10/100 mini PCI Ethernet Adapter. I have read of other people doing this successfully where the eepro module was used. When I use LinuxConf it comes up with the following:

Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S85httpd start
Can not determine local host name
User ServerName directive to set it manually

I have looked in all my reference books for how to set this manually (it is in LinuxConf) but I can't find anything. Please help ;-)

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by zbarski

The error you get isn't because og your Ehternet adapter. It's because configuration of Apache. This error says that you must tell apache your server name and it must be written in your httpd.conf file that is located in /etc or /etc/http or something like this. For more information about apache go to www.linuxdoc.org and read Apache HOWTO.

by kwhit

Since this posting I have fixed my httpd.conf file with the correct ServerName, but Linux still does not recognize my ethernet card.

by gregory pleau

My laptop uses a 3Com 3C90x derivative and on Redhat 6.2 (stock build) it nearly drove me insane getting the thing to work.

It got much, much better behaved when I jumped up to the 2.2.16 kernel ( you can use the Redhat Update agent or www.linuxhq.com to obtain).

The 3Com cards are typically the Vortex or boomerang cards and they are the 3c59x ( that's right, same as Etherlink III ) or 3c90x drivers.

The network interface settings on RH are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Another thing to do is cat /proc/pci | less and find out exactly what chipset that mini 3Com is using (though I bet it is a 3c90x variant).

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