On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, David Hughes wrote:
> It is a 3com 3c509 internal, and also a PCI based 3com 3c509. An odder
The 3c509 is an ISA card. There are no PCI-based 3c509 cards.
You may be thinking about the 3c905 card, which is a 10/100mbit PCI card
from 3-com. It uses the 3c59x driver when you're trying to figure out
which one to use in the "kernel config" program. I haven't gotten a 3c905
to work right though -- it ends up crashing whenever the network gets
saturated (something about "sixteen collision buffer filled error"). This
is a known issue (see the 3c59x driver development home page).
> thing is I had an earlier version of RedHat (4.1 or 4.2, can't recall),
> running on the machine with no problems. So I know the system(s) works.
If it really IS a 3c509, there is an issue with all Linux kernels later
than 2.0.29 and the 3c509: the 3c509 module no longer wants "io=xxxx" and
"irq=xx" parameters and will in fact refuse to load if you provide those
parameters. It is now fully autoprobe (no longer gives you those "Warning!
Autoprobing may not work on non-EISA bus!" messages). Check your
/etc/conf.modules file. It should say "alias eth0 3c509" and nothing else.
And yes, Red Hat 5.0 works fine with a 3c509. That's what I have installed
here in the office. It works. End of story. Not a pretty card, not the
fastest card, but as reliable as they come.
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