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Sure! I thought I had posted the resolution,
but maybe not (I think i gave it a different subject, so it may not have shown
up as a reply). Here's a copy and paste from my solution. Good
Luck, Erik.
Hi, I am cured,
After taking a few steps from an archived reply: it worked. Here's what I did:
From Gerald A. Jones:
"The 3COM 509B card can run in three modes ISA, PNP, and EISA. Mandrake 7.0 doesn't play nice with this card in PNP mode. Here's what you need to do. Go to ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c509 and get the file 3c509x2.exe this is a self expanding compressed file. Place this file in an empty directory and execute (double click) it. This will expand into a lot of stuff you do not need." I rebooted to the command prompt only (press F8 just before windows starts loading) and navigated to that temp directory and executed 3c5x9cfg.exe. I used the configuration tool to disable PnP capability. I restarted once again to the command prompt. Values had been automatically assigned to the IRQ and IO, but I wanted ones that were near the previous values, so I changed them. Next, I rebooted to windows to fix it there. Went to the control panel and selected "Add New Hardware". Windows detected the "3c509 in ISA mode" without any problems. Rebooted to Windows to make sure it worked. Then I rebooted to Linux and it worked without any problems at all. Thanks for your help, mail group!! Hope someone else reads this and doesn't go through as much crap as I did. Tim > Hi, I have a problem: > > My 3c509b ISA does not work with 7.2, nor did it it work with 7.1. > > I selected the correct module at install, but it hasn't ever worked. I've > gotten it to work before with RedHat 6 and dhcpcd, but I'm having trouble > with it now. I'm connecting to the internet through a cable modem with my > NIC through RoadRunner in Austin, TX. > > -I've tried "modprobe 3c509" and then "insmod 3c509" but it tells me that it > is already installed. > -I try "ifconfig" and I only get "lo" stats. > -Windows tells me that it's using interrupt 9 at I/O range 210. HardDrake > tells me that Linux is using I 3 and I/O 200, but it gives me an error when > I change it. > -I tried changing the Interrupt and I/O in linuxconf (the "optional" > fields), but still nothing. > -I tried installing the dhcp client > -I tried using dhcpcd. > > Nothing is working. I suspect that it's a faulty configuration or a hardware > caveat I haven't exposed. I haven't yet tried disabling PnP on the card, > but I'll try that next and reply to my post if it did or did not work. I > don't understand isapnp very well, so I haven't fooled with it, but I get > sound through my ISA AWE64, so I don't suspect it anyway. > > Thanks for your help. If you need more information, let me know. > > Tim |
