FC1 - 3Com 3C90X - trouble with chkconfig

[wildealien]

hi folks. just a forewarning, UNIX newbie here. :o

i'll be direct. i've tried the "chkconfig kudzu off" command numerous times in the root directory to fix my network card problem, but it would appear that FC1 isn't recognizing the command.

also, FC1 can't detect my soundcard. i have the SoundBlaster128 PCI soundcard.

i really enjoyed the power of the device manager in my windows version to manually install drivers and configure drives and devices. is there anything like this in FC1?

and really, the soundcard business doesn't bother me too much right now. i figure, once i can get online through FC1, then i can fix other things without having to reboot into my windows version

thanks in advance!

[dave_kimberley]

That's very strange, try chkconfig --level 0123456 off then chkconfig --list | grep kudzu to check the change. The command can be ran anywhere on the system, just make sure you are root.

As its a soundblaster you are in luck, the card has two DSPs on-board and there is a multitude of support.

To check your system hardware there is a hardware browser in System Tools I believe.

[wildealien]

hmm... doing further research, i found this solution, via The Unofficial #fedora FAQ.

http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/#3c905

1. You must have kernel-source installed for this to work. Check the "Add/Remove Applications" tool in System Settings on the red-hat menu.
2. Download Donald Becker's netdrivers to your home directory.
3. Open a Terminal
4. Do cd ~;mkdir netdrivers;cd netdrivers
5. Unzip the netdrivers using tar -xzf ../netdrivers*.
6. Compile them using make CC="gcc32"
7. Become root.
8. Do make install.
9. Restart your computer, but watch out for kudzu. That means that if a blue-and-red screen comes up asking you something about 3Com, say "IGNORE"

how can i download that file if i can't get online? is there a way to download it here in my windows environment and find it in FC1? and what is kernel-source?

thanks again

[wildealien]

thanks dave! i'll try that now. hopefully i'll re-login to this site via FC1!

[wildealien]

it worked!

thanks!!

(what i did differently, is that i logged in INITIALLY as root, instead of my usr account, then root, then trying it.)

[dave_kimberley]

When you went from your usr a/c to root previously did you use

 su -

as you might not have taken root's environment with you.

[arne]

I had this error with eth0:

Host error fifo diagnostics register 2000
...

Turning off kudzu as described above solved this problem.

Posting it here as I found no clear answer to this error on google.

-arne