Network cards not being detected.

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I have an old IBM pc running at 166Mhz, Pentium. I have 2 NIC´s installed. An old ISA 3Com Etherlink III 509 series, and a PCI Realtek 8139 chip. When I boot the machine with MT´s install diskette, it tells me I don´t have an ethernet card. How´s that? What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug? Or a problem with the mainboard/MT?


Thank you for the help.


Zelathor


P.S.: I forgot, MT´s version is 2.9.6

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please try newer version, as there are many many bugs resolved since version you are mentioning.

current version is 2.9.48 for stable and 3.0rc7 for new upcoming version

3

Not sure about your ISA card, but I had the same problem with Realtek 8139-based cards on 2.9.x, but since I upgraded to 3.0rc5, all works OK with the Realtek cards.

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realteks have new drivers in ROSv3. ISA cards need manual loading, see DRIVER section of the manual.