On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:15:44PM +0100, Harry Newton wrote: > I'm having a little trouble doing an NFS install on a machine with a > 3com 3c509 card ( 3 ports ) for Debian 2.2r2. > > I start the installation and after a while reach the stage where I > need to load the module for this card: this I do and the module > installation proceeds with no erros. ( I use the default settings of > io=0 and irq=0 to probe the card. ) I then configure the > network. However, although the settings reported by ifconfig eth0 are > correct ( they are the same irq and io that do work with OpenBSD and > NetBSD on the same machine ) nothing happens on the half-installed > Debian: pinging other machines on the network fails to illicit any response. > > cat /proc/ioports gives the correct values, but cat /proc/interrupts > shows 0 against the card/irq. > > lsmod shews the 3c509 module to be installed. > > Help ! I'm at a loss as to what the problem is, and I don't know what > to do about it. Thanks for any help ... > When I do an install, I just look in the debian kernel-config files to see which disk set works with my hardware, and use that.
Otherwise, don't specify any io or irq options for the module. Other than that, I don't know since the 3 port card could do something special with the driver. Mike