Turning off Plug and Play in your bios just makes sure that The opperating system is not messing around with the stuff that the Bios has set. This way you protect not Plug&Play opperating systems and Plug&Play opperating systems don't have trouble with it. You only protect Linux this way because Windows is not able to fool around with everything.
The disk's for that nic can be found at:
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509b.htm
You probebly need version 6.02.This includes the latest drivers and everything. The install program located on one of the disks includes the diagnostics program.
Here I have a system running a 3C905B and I have set the bios to "Not Plug&Play OS" This way OS/2 won't get in trouble.
On my Linux system I have done the same because there I also have Win 98 and Win NT.
Have you checked all the network cables? And is the NIC properly inserted into the Mainboard, I have had some trouble with a nic till I saw that the NIC was not properly connected.
As far as I know, the drivers for the 3c509b adapter in Linux find the interupt itself. Is this not the case, you could look in /etc/modules to see if the nic is configured there. When you have compiled the driver into the kernel then the configuration might be in the kernel too but I don't think so. I can't check it here because I'm at my work now.
It could also be that the driver is loaded as a module and unloaded at some point but doesn't get loaded anymore. What happens if you restart the network? In Redhat 5.2 this can be done in the X tool for the systemconfiguration.
Greetings,
J.H. Prins
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Onderwerp: Re: AW: eth0 device or resource busy
Dear JH,
As for turning off my plug and play, I consulted my roommate who
works in the hardware department of my school and does summer
work as an intern for Kraft in their computer systems department,
and he was weary as was I about turning off my plug and play. As
for getting the disk, it was installed by a company which resides on
my campus and getting the disk could be a problem and he won't
be back till spring break.
Also, the last time my card stopped working, I had used it for
netscape and telnet, closed them all down and later restarted
netscape and it wouldn't work.
I looked at my IRQs therefore and out of 15, 3 seems to be the
only spot to use it, the rest are in use. My win device manager
doesn't even show a com2, only a com1 and lpt1, I have a ps2
mouce and com1 isn't even used, so I'm not worrying preasently. I
would like to keep my card on 3 and just change it in linux to 3. I
actually have windows with no device conflicts, a far cry from my
last machine, and I would like to keep it like that as I do still use
win preasently more than linux. If you could tell me how to change
the interupts in linux, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
