Hi Leonardo
I have two 3c509's and had init problems with both of them
on totally different hardware, so it's not an isolated problem.
Luckily the solution is simple, as root edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file.
Goto the line just above the Section for "loading modules for backward
compatibility" (line 304 in my copy Mdk 7.0) and add the following line:
action "Loading 3Com 3c509 - I HOPE !!!" modprobe 3c509
This forces the 3c509 module to be loaded, usually it grabs irq 10
regardless of any other params you set, does on my config's anyway.
The following is an excerpt from my rc.sysinit file showing the
modification with the sections above and below it displayed.
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# Load mixer settings
if grep -q "\(sparcaudio\|sound\)" /proc/devices 2>/dev/null && [ -f /etc/.aumixrc -a
-x /bin/aumix-minimal ]; then
action "Loading mixer settings" /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
fi
if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe ]; then
if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then
echo "/sbin/modprobe" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
else
echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
fi
fi
#### Added by RaStuS to force loading of 3com 3c509 NIC #####
action "Loading 3Com 3c509 - I HOPE !!!" modprobe 3c509
#######################################################
# Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs)
if [ -f /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules
fi
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I hope this helps your situation, it has worked flawlessly for me since
implementing it nearly two years ago (Rhat 5.2 then).
Good luck with it......
RaStuS
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi .
>
>
> First of all, this new release is REAL optimized. Nice!
> Some little troubles on some features (like get the /mnt with no
> permission at
> all, what frozen my system on the "mount /mnt/cdrom" on one machine), but still
> a really good performance.
> But on a machine, that was using a really old ISA 3com 3c509 net card ,
> the
> install detected it, but on the reboot the system lost the settings.
> I've tried , on the last "round" , 3 different settings on the bios of the
> card (
> using it's software on DOS) , but the system gave it up.
> And, at all, the previous Mandrake releases detected all the ISA net cards
>
> smoothly ( the most of them was OLD DE 220 ISA cards), but 7.1 failed.
> Why this?
> Using manual configuration the cards worked fine. But the first case
> still's in
> trouble. I've changed from 3com to de220 , configured it, but now the network is
> not responding. The machine ping itself , the module is ok , but NO network.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Leonardo T. de Carvalho
> Gerente de Redes
> NIB-UNICAMP-Brasi;
