Bernd wrote: > Ian Jackson: > > The ethercard is a "plug and play" 3c509. > > At least in 1.3.37 the 3c509 driver reads the interrupt from the cards > eeprom. So you have to set a propper IRQ into the card with a dos based > utility.
There's a Linux utility for this, too -- saved my butt since I wiped DOS out on a couple of new Dell machines before realizing that I needed to change their ELink III connector in EEPROM from BNC to twisted pair. I got the utility from D. Becker's home site -- sorry, lost the URL, but I still have the source. From the README: > Linux Ethercard Diagnostic and Setup Programs > > This is a collections of user-level programs to check out the basic > functionality of an ethercard. The "setup" programs can read (and sometimes > even write) the EEPROM setup table of software-configured cards. > > Linux at CESDIS > Author:Donald Becker, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the larger issue of 3c509 loadable module working-ness, I have never been able to get it to work reliably. On a correctly-configured(tm) system, the module would successfully load about half the time. Compiling the driver into the kernel completely removed this problem. Bill Gribble
