Thaks for your mail. I made a record of the terminal session and I'm
attaching it here. I made a completely fresh install with the
1996-12-8 floppies and only selected nfs from the device driver
modules. I tried to install 3c509 but it failed with or without the
irq and base io given as parameter.
I also tried the boot floppies from November but they didn't fix the
3com problem either.
The motherboard is a Tyan TomcatIII, and there's also a SoundBlaster
32 PnP installed.
You wrote:
> How does exactly insmod fails? What are the error messages? I'm
> loading the 3c509 module from kernel 2.0.23 here without any trouble.
> All I need to do is to include a line with
>
> 3c509
>
> in /etc/modules, and a line with
>
> options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7
>
> in /etc/conf.modules. Everything works really nice with only that.
After the first reboot I installed 3c5x9 configure program and the
bsdutils package so I could use script to record the session. The
3c509 card was first initialized in dos to it's default
settings. Here's the transcript.
The new 3c5x9 setup program says that the card is active but there was
no such message with the previous version dated 6/9/95.
Script started on Thu Dec 12 21:55:41 1996
# lsmod
Module: #pages: Used by:
nfs 12 4
# ./3c5x9 -v
3c5x9setup.c:v0.04 12/11/96 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be an active.
Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag.
# ./3c5x9 -f
3c5x9 found at 0x300.
Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x300, IRQ 10, 10baseT port.
Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2
Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2
# insmod 3c509 io=0x300
Initialization of 3c509 failed
# insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10
Initialization of 3c509 failed
# lsmod
Module: #pages: Used by:
nfs 12 4
# ./3c509 --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7
A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be an active.
Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag.
# ./3c5x9 -f --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7
3c5x9 found at 0x300.
Would write new IRQ entry 0x7f00 (old value 0xaf00).
Would write new transceiver/IO entry 0x0001 (old value 0x0010).
Would write new checksum entry 0x7a71 (old value 0x7ab0).
(The new EEPROM values will not be written without the '-w' flag.)
Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port.
Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2
Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2
# ./3c5x9 -f -w --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7
3c5x9 found at 0x300.
Writing new IRQ entry 0x7f00.
Writing new transceiver/IO entry 0x0001.
Writing new checksum entry 0x7a71.
Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port.
Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2
Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2
# ./3c5x9 -f -w --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7
3c5x9 found at 0x300.
Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port.
Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2
Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2
# insmod 3c509
Initialization of 3c509 failed
# insmod 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7
Initialization of 3c509 failed
# cat /proc/interrupts
0: 51951 timer
1: 1893 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
8: 0 + rtc
13: 1 math error
14: 7263 + ide0
15: 99 + ide1
# cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-009f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : npu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f0-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0800000.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0x9000.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
# exit
Script done on Thu Dec 12 22:00:20 1996
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