I have used many of these cards in Bering routers and the trick is to assign the correct parameters using the DOS utility. I have the utility on a DOS 6.22 bootable disk so I put the first card in, boot the utility and run it to set the parameters I want, then shut it down, swap cards, boot up and assign the second set of parameters, and repeat once more if a third interface is desired.
I have the most predictable results if I assign the card with the lowest MAC address to eth0, next lowest to eth1 and highest to eth2. I generally use IRQ 10, 11 and 12 and IO addresses of 220, 280 and 320 as those have not caused any conflicts with the hardware I typically use in these routers. Regards, paul On 11/23/06, Eric Spakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
