3COM 3C940 not detected, does work

My 3COM 3C940 NIC is not detected by hwsetup.

Hwsetup -v -n tells me:

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class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
device: eth
driver: unknown
desc: 3Com Corporation|unknown device 10b7:1700

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lspci -vvv tells me:

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0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. P4P800 Mainboard
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (5750ns min, 7750ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at ec800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Region 1: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data

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The network card works if I install the module 'sk98lin'.
Probably this would be solved if hwsetup would be told to use sk98lin for this PCI ID.

I am having similar problems - my NIC is not being detected and being new to Linux I am not sure how to add the drivers I downloaded. I have tried to go into the network card install but there isn't an option to select drivers from disk (my USB hd drive). I had downloaded the 3com gigabit Lan drivers from mobo manufacturers site to my usb key drive which is mounted in linux but lost from there.

I hate to break the bad news to you, but that 3Com NIC is the ONLY one I have had trouble with in Fedora, Red Hat and SuSE. Trade it in and get ANYTHING but that, even a 10MPS ISA NIC will be working before the 3COM ever does.

Sorry for an old bump but I found Linux drivers for it. Didn't try them yet. I'll HD reinstall my Knoppix since I have way too many problems with the current one. Hope it will work. :roll: