Re: [ILUG] Mandrake disappearing network card

From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Tue 24 Aug 1999 - 22:59:57 IST


Hi,
        Check the IRQ in windows then check it in Linux, turn off Pnp on
the card, 3c509b need to have pnp disabled I think to run under Linux,

or perhaps trying using pnpdump and isapnp to configure it and then load
the module ...

Dave.

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Brendan Farrell wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I was running SuSE 6.0 and win98 (games), all was well in the world, along
> came Mandrake 6.0, the installation was wonderfully easy, except that my
> 3Com 509B is refusing to talk.
> Mandrake thinks that it is working, but I cannot ping my girlyfriends PC,
> my hub doesn't even show a green light for the Linux box. If I reboot into
> win98 the card is recognised by the hub and full functionality is restored.
>
> I was wondering about PnP but I have made no hardware or bios changes since
> SuSE 6.0
>
> Any Ideas ???
>
> Rgds.
> Brendan
>
>

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