[ILUG] Linux and the 3c5x9 card - strange one

[Mel]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 John_White at dell.com wrote:

> 	Over the Christmas I encountered a very strange problem on the 3C509
> card under linux . . . 
> 
> It seems like the card is seeing the network, and that linux is seeing the
> card (yes there was only 1 network card in the system, no onboard card or
> anything else like that). But there was no way it was saying anything.
> 
> Anybody got any ideas ?
> 

PNP.

3c509 is an ISA PNP card IRCC, what you need to do is

pnpdump > /tmp/isapnp.conf

edit that file and find where your network card it. Uncomment the revelant
lines. There is only two so guess which one it is if you like :-) .
Remember to uncomment ACT Y at the end. Then

isapnp /tmp/isapnp.conf
modprove 3c509
ifup eth0

and everything should work. If it does,

cp /tmp/isapnp.conf /etc/isapnp.conf

and it should work next time on bootup. Note that this means the 3c509
will always have to be a module

	Mel