If aafter hours of work and all attempts fails (irq conflict that wont go away, and such) it could be worth your while to D/L the 3com bios utility for your card because some cards like to be configured by jumpers or flash becausee they insist on particular IRQ and io ports to be used. I had to do this once for 2 identical ISA cards on the same PC (they both use the same IRQ by factory default--i'm pretty sure it was 3com) so they just refused to work together. At least you could use their (dos) utility to read the settings on yur card (unless you have a card with jumpers) and use those settings as options to modules.conf. (Sorry i cant be more specific than this but i cant remember details, did this isa config 3 years ago on a 486...)
jondz > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Marvin Pascual wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I already have 2 NICs, all of them are 3Com PCI but I need to add another > > one. My problem here is I don't have any PCI slot so I have to use an ISA > > NIC. I have here a 3Com 3c509 ISA NIC. Anybody can help me set this up? I > > already added "alias eth2 3c509" without the quotes in my /etc/modules.conf. > > > > It should work by default UNLESS you have an IRQ conflict between the > 3c509 and the other PCI cards, in which case you need to determine the > IRQ/IO params of the card and exclude it in the PCI IRQ assignment in the > bios. > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > --- > > MARVIN T. PASCUAL > > Mobile No. +63 919 3141254 > > Yahoo! Messenger ID: bintut > > GNU/Linux User No. 247127 > > > > > > _ > > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL > > PROTECTED] > > > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
