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3Com 509B Ethernet card problem part 2



Hi,

Thanks to all who responded to my first (very incomplete) question!

I have now disabled PnP on the card and set IRQ to 10 and io to 300. IRQ
10 is set to ISA (not Pnp) in Bios. Donald Beckers el3-diag report the
card to be OK, se below.

What I was trying to do was to compile the 3c509 driver hard into the
kernel with "modconf" and was geting only errors. Many suggested to load
the driver as a module insteed so I have put the line "alias eth0 3c509"
in to the file "conf.modules" via update-modules command. But I still get:

On Boot
     eth0 unknown interface

When I check modprobe

# This file was generated by: modprobe -c (2.1.121)
     [Deletia]
     # Aliases
     alias eth0 3c509
     alias eth0 off
     [Deletia]

The first line about 3c509 looks like mine but where does the "off"
command come from?

After running el3-diag, insmod and modprobe I am for some reason able to
run "modconf" and put the driver in to the kernel but on reboot the
process stops at "3c509", only a CTRL+C makes it continue.

After running insmod "3c509", modprobe "3c509", ifconfig ... and route
... everything looks fine, se below, but I can't get a connection/ping
other computers on my local network. The settings in ifconfig and route
disappears after a reboot, I presume this is not right.

TIA

Regards,
Fredrik Jonsson

* Some (necessary?) info:

el3diag.c:v0.11 3/16/97 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
     Looking for card 1.
     Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100 for card 1.
     Activating the card at I/O address 300.
     EEPROM contents:
      0060 9724 7cb9 9050 c183 0036 5a46 6d50 0010 a000 0060 9724 7cb9
1320 0000 9583
     An ISA EtherLink III board was activated at I/O 0x300, IRQ 10.
     eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300.

# This file was generated by: ifconfig -a
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:97:24:7C:B9
          inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300

Kernel IP routing table (via netstat -nr)
     Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window
irtt Iface
     192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U      1500 0
  0 eth0
     127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U      3584 0
  0 lo

PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
ping: wrote 192.168.0.2 64 chars, ret=-1
not permitted
ping: wrote 192.168.0.2 64 chars, ret=-1
not permitted
ping: wrote 192.168.0.2 64 chars, ret=-1
not permitted
--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss


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