Re: 2.2r2 and 3c509 network card
Hi,
also, do make sure you have turned the 'pnp' option off in the card's
bios. You can configre your card with 3c509utils (I belive). When all is
correctly configured, you can insmod your card without options.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, David S. Bach wrote:
> Debian 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2.18pre21) is unable to use the 3c509 ISA network card.
>
> In modconf, if I attempt to insert 3c905 modules without
> parameters,installation fails. In modconf I am apparently able to
> insert the module using "3c509 io=0210 irq=12." These are the
> resources used for the card in Win95.
>
> lsmod lists 3c509.
>
> However, I am unable to configure the card. When I attempt
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 up, I get the same
> message twice:
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable.
>
> ifconfig -a shows, in addition to the expected:
> Interrupt: 10 Base address: 0x300
> (I'm guessing that this is significant since I cannot access devices
> on the Advansys SCSI PCI card that also claims interrupt 10. What can
> I do about this?)
>
> 3c509 shows up in /proc/ioports at 300-30F.
> It does not show up /proc/interrupts.
>
> Help, anyone?
>
> TIA,
>
> db
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> David S. Bach
> Seattle, Washington
> dsbach@serv.net
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