Tony But according to what I did on my PC at the office, compiling the module inside the kernel and disabling the PNP mode of the card is sufficent and I don't need to power off the system to boot to linux (I have both Slackware as well as RedHat 6.1). Daryoush >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/12/00, 12:47:42 PM, Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: 3c509 : > There is a known issue with the 3c509b cards... yes, they are broken > (the bios on the card, not the driver). Silly thing that 3com did - > listen to microsoft (and stuffed things for everyone else). If you > go from windows to linux without a total poweroff, the hardware > address is detected as FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. There are other hiccups > with it too, not a good card to have in dual-boot boxes. > See Donald's web site at nasa.gov.au (see the output from the driver > in the syslogs), last time I looked there was a bit of detail about > the problem. > Solution is to actually power-off the box when you boot into one or > the other. (Well this is what ended up working for me, but IIRC it > was only needed one way, eg win->linux or linux->win - I think the > former). > Good luck. Hope this helps. > On Mon Jul 10 2000 at 09:06, Dale Alspach wrote: > > 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: > > ------------------ > > 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. ) > > ------------------------ > > > > 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 > > > > ********************************************************************* > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Post: > > Oklahoma State University > > Department of Mathematics > > 401 Math Science > > Stillwater, OK 74078-1058 USA > > > > Telephone: 405-744-5784 > > FAX: 405-744-8275 > > ********************************************************************* > > > > > Cheers > Tony > -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- > Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Administrator, RHCE > GrowZone OnLine (a project of) GrowZone Development Network > POBox 475 Toowoomba Oueensland Australia 4350 Ph: 07 4637 8322 > -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-
