Re: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

[Bill Bell <whbell@bell-cs.com>]

Hello Sebastiaan,

I have the 3c509 driver compiled into the kernel.  One of the early
problems I had with this system is that if I tried to use a loadable
module for these cards, I could not get them both to be reconized.
I seem to remember that a 2.2.x kernel read-me (or even 2.0.x) told
me to fix this by loading the driver from the kernel and using lilo.conf
to pass in the correct parameters.  It is very possible that by moving
to the 2.4.0 kernel, my original problem has gone away without my
trying to find out.

I will reconfigure my system tonight and try loading them as modules.

Thanks for the ideas,

-- Bill
C.R.E.A.M.  Dark Angel

Quoting Sebastiaan

> Hi,
> 
> is it vital that both cards are loaded at boottime? What happens when
> you
> insmod the second card? How does the kernel behave when compiling the
> cards in? Perhaps you can try to leave the ',eth0' and ',eth1' at the
> bootline and let the kernel figure it out itself?
> 
> Greetz,
> Sebastiaan
> 
> 
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Bill Bell wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have a dual NIC system using two 3c509 cards.  This configuration
> has
> > been working well under sid with a 2.2.18 kernel (my current
> system).
> > I have been trying to move up to a 2.4.0 kernel and I am having
> > problems.
> > 
> > My problem is when booting with the 2.4.0 kernel, both NIC cards
> have
> > the wrong media port enabled.  The boot message is saying something
> > like "Coax port" instead of "10baseT port".
> > 
> > This is the lilo.conf append line I use to get both cards working
> for
> > the 2.2.18 kernel.
> > 
> > append="ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x310,eth1"
> > 
> > When I remark out this append line, run lilo, and boot the 2.4.0
> kernel,
> > eth0 gets configed correctly with the 10baseT port enabled, but eth1
> > is not found.
> > 
> > Some of the things I have tried-
> > RTFM docs under /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking
> > searching the debian user list archives
> > searching www.kernel.org documentation
> > other various FAQs on the web
> > 
> > Possible problems as a guess-
> > 1) I am missing a new append "ether='parameter'"
> > 2) There is a better way to use the "ether=" line
> > 3) 2.4.0 kernel has a bug in the 3c509 driver (?)
> > 
> > More info-
> > I have PnP turned off in both the BIOS and on both NICs.
> > 
> > Thanks for any and all suggestions.
> > 
> > -- Bill
> > C.R.E.A.M.  Dark Angel