For reasons unbeknownst to me, I've had problems before when using 3c509's with Debian's stock installation kernel. There has even been a few times when I had to swap NICs just for the installation to work. As soon as I compile my a custom kernel for the machines and put the 3c509's back in, it works fine. I don't use DHCP here, but it's just something I've noticed. I have three machines running 3c509's now with custom (i.e. not the stock) kernels and they work great. The 3c509's, IMO, are damn good cards.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/1:~]$ grep ^eth0 /var/log/dmesg | head -n 1 eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 24 79 8c, IRQ 10. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]$ grep ^eth0 /var/log/dmesg | head -n 1 eth0: 3c5x9 at 0x200, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 18 61 fe, IRQ 3. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]$ grep ^eth0 /var/log/dmesg | head -n 1 eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 04 0e 97, IRQ 10. The card in hurricane is actually a 3c529 which is just a microchannel (MCA) version of the 3c509. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Sunny Dubey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:45 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: 3com NIC question hey, I have a 3c509 NIC. I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I stfw'ed. (searched the fucking web). looking at various mailing lists, i found that I wasn't the only one with the same problem, the common solution was to disable PNP, and try again. I followed the steps as show, with no luck in the end. I tried both linux-2.4.6, linux-2.2.19pre17 (The one with potatoe) and various dhcp clients (dhcpcd, pump, etc) and none have worked. But today, on the same box I tried installing openbsd, and I found that DHCP worked right out of the install. This made me wonder once again why it doesn't work under linux. Does anyone have any insight on why this happens only in linux? (I tried under windows, and it works there too) Thanks Sunny Dubey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
