[wellylug] 3c509 NIC misery

Lindsay Hunter klhunter at paradise.net.nz
Tue Sep 16 19:10:00 NZST 2003


The other responses are on the button.  I used this setup for Coyote. 
 After wrestling for some time, I reread the documentation and 
configured the cards with the DOS utility so they were on different 
IRQs.  Turned off PNP.  Then let Coyote makes its own way but not 
telling Coyote where they should be in addressing and IRQ.  Coyote 
detected fine.  

Lindsay

pmilne at paradise.net.nz wrote:

>I am mucking around with old 3C509's for incorporation into a firewall 
>box.  I have tried configuring them with both 3Com's and Donald 
>Becker's setup routines.  Although the ifconfig output and 
>/proc/interrupts  say it is set to the IRQ that I intend, the 3C509 seems 
>to have a mind of its own and signals the interrupt to IRQ=5, hence no 
>return signal is 'received' for ping.  If I amend the 3c509 line in 
>/etc/modules to 3c509 irq=5, then it pings fine (this is OK if you are 
>using one card and the line is free, but it is a problem for multiple 
>cards).  I am using a minimal Debian Woody system as the testbed.  I 
>have only one card installed and I have shut down motherboard sound, 
>serial ports and parallel port via the BIOS.
>
>Is this likely to be a setup problem, or could the card be faulty?
>
>regards
>Peter
>
>  
>




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