I don't know. I got the card second hand with no book or disks. Sure would
like to know why it doesn't respond.
>Sorry if this is a dumb question, is there
>a "full-duplex" setting for this
>card or does it operate that way
>by default?
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Alan wrote:
> I installed a 3Com 3c509 NIC. I am running Mandrake 6.5. I ran modprobe
> 3c509.o Sunday and got a return message: eth0:3c509 at 0x280 tag1,
10baseT,
> 10baseT port, address, 00 20 af 1e dd 9c, IRQ 11.
> I then edited /ect/ conf.modules to add the following lines:
> alias eth0 3c509
> options 3c509 io=0x280 IRQ=11
> I rebooted and ran dmesg and lsmod. Neither command returned any
reference
> whatsoever to eth0 or any other NIC type comment.
> Why is Linux ignoring this card? What should I change or do differently?
> Thanks is advance.
