On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 John_White at dell.com wrote:
> Over the Christmas I encountered a very strange problem on the 3C509
> card under linux . . .
>> It seems like the card is seeing the network, and that linux is seeing the
> card (yes there was only 1 network card in the system, no onboard card or
> anything else like that). But there was no way it was saying anything.
>> Anybody got any ideas ?
>
PNP.
3c509 is an ISA PNP card IRCC, what you need to do is
pnpdump > /tmp/isapnp.conf
edit that file and find where your network card it. Uncomment the revelant
lines. There is only two so guess which one it is if you like :-) .
Remember to uncomment ACT Y at the end. Then
isapnp /tmp/isapnp.conf
modprove 3c509
ifup eth0
and everything should work. If it does,
cp /tmp/isapnp.conf /etc/isapnp.conf
and it should work next time on bootup. Note that this means the 3c509
will always have to be a module
Mel
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