> I slam in the 3com card which is an EtherLink XL PCI, 3c900 combo.
>
> Boot... and I see that the card is recognized in dmesg but "not
> configured". Why that? Is the card possibly broken? or unsupported?

It means that your kernel configuration does not contain the
specification for the driver for the card.  See ex(4) for the line to
include in your kernel configuration to have it recognized (you
probably need the "ex* at pci?" line).

Regards,

- H=E5vard