John,
The 3c509B card can run in three modes EISA, PNP, and
ISA. Mandrake can
only use this card in ISA mode. Here is what you need to do to
get the
card working. Go to ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/NIC/3c509/ and down
load 3c509x2.exe to a DOS/WIN system in to an empty folder of you
choice.
This is a self extracting archive file. In a DOS window or at the
DOS
prompt execute the file and it will expand into a bunch of
files. Most of
which you do not need. Now create a DOS boot floppy and copy
3c5x9cfg.exe
to the floppy.
Boot the Linux box with the floppy and run 3c5x9cfg.exe. Turn off
the PNP
mode and set the card to an available IRQ and I/O address. Good
choices
are 10, 11 for IRQ and 300, 30F for I/O. Shut down the system and
remove
the floppy.
Now boot Linux and it should see the card and load the correct
drivers. Write to the list again if Linux does not detect the
card and
someone will tell you how to load the drivers that are on the
distribution.
Jerry
At 1/25/2001 19:44, you wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I have a Pentium 133Mhz running MDK7.2. I also have a 3c509 NIC that I'm
>trying to get working. When I try to load the driver, I get an error
>message that says it won't load and that it's possibly due to incorrect IO
>or IRQ parameters. I'm really not that familiar with this, but I tried
>changing the options in /etc/modules.conf as well as some basic things
>suggested in the ethernet-HOWTO. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>John
