From: Brendan Farrell (brendan.farrell at domain tellabs.com)
Date: Wed 25 Aug 1999 - 12:15:19 IST
Hi !
Twas indeed the curse of PNP, I downloaded the etherdisk utilities from the
3Com website, there was a utility called 3C509CFG which allowed me to turn
off PNP.
Thanks,
Brendan
At 05:43 PM 8/24/99 +0100, david.airlie at domain ul.ie wrote:
>
>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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