Hello Mats, It looks like grml uses some sort of isapnp. I guess the problem is indeed a shared address space. Most of those old cards have a (dos) utility to configure the addresses, a switch to enable/disable pnp and/or a few jumpers to set IRQ/address.
http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp?selected=5&sku=3C509B-TPC&sort=effdt&order=desc and http://lists.hellug.gr/pipermail/rule-list/2003/002792.html (you don't have to set aliases) Eric > Hello Eric, > > > the two cards are indeed ISA-cards: > > 3Com EtherLink III 3C509TP > > > I have rescued a handful old isa-cards from the junk > yard and I would like to put them to good use also with Bering. Of course, > these two cards will serve as slower side interfaces on the intended > access point. > > On the present, revived machine, I have inserted > modules 8139too and 3c509 into /etc/modules and the relevant message from > dmesg is this > > eth2: 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, address .... \ > IRQ 3 > 3c509.c:1.19 16Oct2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > and no indication of a further card appart from two instances of 8139too. > The interesting thing is that > Freesco reports both with > > > io=0x300, irq=3 and io=0x300, irq=10, > > whereas grml after manual "modprobe 3c509" reports > > io=0x300, irq=3 and io=0x220, irq=5. > > Freesco sets tag 1 and tag 2 on these cards, but > cannot configure more than one card, probably due to both cards sharing the > same address space. > > Intrigued by these disparate reports on one and the > same driver module, I was looking for a method to pass parameters to 3c509 > using insmod and thereby hopefully activating both cards. So far in vain, > though. > > Regards > Mats > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
