FWIW, there is a Linux version of 3Com's utility for the 3c5x9 series of cards. Hell, it's even packaged for Debian. I believe the package name is "3c5x9utils" or similar.
j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Steve Witt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 5:34 PM To: Sunny Dubey Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 3com NIC question On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Sunny Dubey wrote: > 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) > I'm not sure if your problem is with the NIC or with DHCP. Can you assign a fixed address to the NIC (in /etc/network/interfaces) and get it to work? If so then I don't think there is anything wrong with the card or driver. I've used a lot of these NICs and the only problem I had was with Plug and Play. The solution was to get a drivers disk from 3Com and run the configuration utility (boot with a DOS floppy), turn off plug and play in the card and set the IRQ and address range you want for the card. If the IRQ/address are one of the common ones (like IRQ 10, address 0x300), the driver will find it and go from there. There may even be a linux version of this 3Com configuration utility, though I've never used it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]