IIRC, I thought 3Com has a vanilla Linux driver on their web site for
the LAN.

Shane Berringer wrote:
Issue #2: The bottom LAN port (next to the audio plugs) does not get a
little green light when I plug in the network cable. The other one
does. I can see where you enable/disable the NVidia LAN port in the
BIOS, but I cannot find one for the 3Com. Which port is which? Why are
they acting goofy?

I get a yellow LED illuminated when I plug in a cable, no green LED, not
sure what the green LED indicates, the manual does not help. The yellow LED
flashes to indicate activity. I am connected to a 10/100 switch, and the
switch indicates a 100MB/S and full duplex connection via the switch's LEDs.


You are right, I am getting a constant Yellow on the top LAN port...
my eyes must be going bad. I still get nothing when I plug in the
bottom.


I would like to get the bottom port to respond, but since I can't I am
forced to deal with the upper port. ** is there a place to enable the
3Com in the BIOS? If so, where is it as opposed to the Nvidia one? **

Yes, look at the integrated peripherals page in the BIOS, it's there, I've
enabled and disabled the 3com NIC.


Here are the options on my Integrated Periperhals page:

Primary VGA BIOS
USB Controllers
USB Keyboard Legacy Support
USB Legacy Mouse Support
Onboard AC97 Audio Controller
Onboard LAN(Nvidia)
Onboard 1394 Device
Floppy Disk Access Controller
Onbord Serial Port 1
Onbord Serial Port 2
UART2 Use As
Onboard Parallel Port
Parallel Port Mode
ECP DMA Select
Onboard Game Port
Onboard Midi I/O
Onboard Midi IRQ

But I don't see 3Com.... Although since I'm getting the yellow light
when I plug in the cable, I guess I can assume it's enabled...


Someone posted that the 3c59x driver worked for them, but i tried to
modprobe 3c59x and it didn't work. I got an error.

There's a great faq or 2 for this board at www.nforcershq.com , check it out
in the ASUS and LINUX forums.


I'll check it out. Thanks for the help. At this point I think I'm
going to focus on trying to get 3Com to work since I am having so much
trouble with compile errors on the nvnet.o driver and must not be
patching the forcedeth one properly either.....

Still no luck with either of them though. What could the proper
3Com driver be? 3c59x doesn't seem to work.