Re: installation of 3c509 module from Woody diskette.

[Stephen Cormier <s.cormier@gmx.net>]

On August 13, 2004 05:34 pm, petereasthope@canada.com wrote:
> Debian Users,
>
> This problem occurs in an attempt at diskette/network
> installation of Woody on an ISA 486 DX with a SCSI disk
> attached via an AHA-1542B.
>
> I retrieved the Woody 3.0.23, 2002-05-21 images,
> rescue, root, driver-{1..4}.bin, and put them on diskettes.
> Installation appeared OK until attempting to install
> kernel module 3c509.  IO address and IRQ were set
> in the module configuration to values previously set
> in the EPROM of the card.  This was tried for these
> three cases.
> io=0x300 irq=5
> io=0x300 irq=10
> io=0x300 irq=12
>
> C5X9CFG.EXE complained that IRQ 11 was already
> allocated, suggesting that IRQs 5, 10 and 12 were OK.
>
> In each of the three cases this message surfaced.
>
> "Note: /target/etc/modules.conf is more recent than
> /lib/modules/2.2.20/modules.dep
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io
> /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/3c509.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/3c509.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/3c509.o: insmod 3c509 failed
>
> Installation failed."
>
> An AT-1500T NIC produced analogous results.
>
> Any insights or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,          Peter E.

I would say get the bf2.4 floppy images. I have an older machine here 
with the same network card in it and the install went fine, besides you 
end up with a 2.4 kernel instead of a 2.2. 


Stephen