Re: 3com NIC question
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:41:53AM +0000, Frank Copeland wrote:
> On 12 Jul 01 06:55:28 GMT, Guy Geens <ggeens@iname.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <dubeys@voyager.bxscience.edu> writes:
> >
> >Sunny> hey, I have a 3c509 NIC.
> >
> >Sunny> I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used
> >Sunny> dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I
> >
> >Try `modprobe 3c509' and restart the network with
> >`/etc/init.d/networking restart'.
> >
> >Apart from disabling PNP, I never had any problems with this card.
>
> ISA PNP is a disaster. With PNP disabled and IRQ+IO statically
> configured 3c509's are great NICs, especially compared to SMC's junk.
AFAIK the main problem with 3c509 nics is that they are not really
plug-n-pray at all! One used to have to use some proprietary 3com tool
in msdog to turn off the "plug-n-play" 3com claims it does, which it
doesn't really, it's the 3com marketing people who gave it that name,
not any technical people. When you turn off the "wizard" mode, the
braindamage disappears and the card is perfectly usable again. Nowadays,
you can also do it in linux iirc, with some tools from www.scyld.com.
Cheers,
Joost
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