On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, guitarlynn wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2001 22:18, you wrote:
>
> > . They only thing
> > left I can see to check is the address and IRQ of the ports or
> > perhaps my NIC's. I think they may conflict. How can I find what
> > the NIC's are set to in Linux or DOS? They are 3 Com 3c509's. Is
> > there a way to verify that the ports are configured properly and
> > how do I change the address / IRq that Linux writes to if I have to
> > alter the port hardware address.
>
>
> You have to set these particular cards with a linux utility by Donald
> Becker or use the old 3c5x9cfg utility from 3com in DOS.
>
> You can pick up the DOS utility and get direct instruction for setting
> up these cards at http://www.geocities.com/guitarlynn/3c509.html .
> Likely, if they are from a Windows box, PnP is enable which won't
> work with Linux at all. Just reconfigure them to eth0 (io=300 irq=10)
> eth1 (io=320 irq=320) and disable PnP.
And leave the /etc/modules line bare... just "3c509", no "io" or "irq".
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