I am having an annoying problem with a dual boot RedHat 6.0/win 95 system.
The problem is that the autoprobe seems to cause the 3c509 network adapter
to go back into
PnP mode. This results in the win95 setup losing the card until I boot to
DOS and rerun the disable PnP utility. Both OS's will tolerate
io=0x300 irq=10
PnP makes no sense on this machine since it is an old 486 with ISA and VL
bus architecture.
In an effort to stop auto probe I tried fiddling with an options line in
/etc/conf.modules. The results ranged from annoying to disastrous.
According to net-modules.txt there are two options:
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3c509.c:
io = 0
irq = 0
( Module load-time probing Works reliably only on EISA, ISA
ID-PROBE
IS NOT RELIABLE! Compile this driver statically into kernel for
now, if you need it auto-probing on an ISA-bus machine. )
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So I tried variations on
alias eth0 3c509
options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10
It seems that this is not correct because either I get a "failed" during
bootup or a hang in bootup (if only one option is given)
at the eth0 line. I tried using insmod while the system
was up and got similar results including at one point an error message
saying io= is not an option.
Is there something wrong with the syntax (I tried a comma between the
options)? Is there a different module that supports this card and doesn't
probe? Incidentally with no option line the card installs fine
and in /var/log/messages I get io=0x300 tag 1, irq=10
(What is tag 1?)
Dale Alspach
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