Martijn,
"Been there - done that - bought the t-shirt!"
I used this same utility to manually set them as hard-coded config
instead of PnP. Unfortunately - the STN 3Com driver wants to auto-probe
- and it's anyone's guess which card gets recognized first!! -THAT- is
my problem!!
Jim
Martijn Doedens [DArchAngel] wrote:
> Hmmm I've downloaded the 3com DOS drivers with the file 3c5x9cfg.exe and
> there you can see wich one has wich interrupt. If you know this, you can
> find out wich one STN finds as Eth0 and Eth1 (by removing one of the
> NICs
> temporarily and using this prog)
>
> But there must be another way to 'force' eth0 to be the first nic or
> something
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: zaterdag 6 januari 2001 5:39
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [STN] 3Com 3c509 -> eth0 not found
>
>
> That's the way it works for me too - but here's another twist!
>
> Say I have TWO of those beasties in the same box Apparently I cannot do
> anything to distinguish between them (I cannot even say that eth0 is the
> one at 0x280 and eth1 is the one at 0x290)
>
> At startup - it seems to take its pick as to which one is which.
>
> Errrrr!!!
>
> Jim
>
> Arnie Rothenbaum wrote:
> > The problem is that you shouldn't set the irq and iobase.
> >
> > You need to set the base address to nothing (leave it blank) and set the
> > irq to "autoirq".
> >
> > Try this. That is how mine is set and it works.
> >
> > Bartjan Wattel wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to setup STN on a P90/16Mb with a 3Com 3c509b card and ISDN
> > > external TA, but I can't get the NIC to be recognized. I've tried
> > > everything in the Linux HOWTO: Ethernet, but it does not help. I did set
> > > the correct IO address and IRQ, tested the card with Win9x. The card is
> > > not
> > > in PnP mode.
> > >
> > > Any clues on this one ?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time,
> > > --
> > > Bartjan Wattel.
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