As I suspected (since this card was already working under W95, NT, and even
FreeBSD for some time on the same PC), this wasn't a hardware issue. I finally
did a format and re-install (the update didn't work) to kill this stupid
problem. I was really hoping there was a better way, and that I could learn
something about how to deal with these sorts of issues in Linux. I've got years
of experience in DOS/Windoze, and want to branch out (believe me, you don't know
how good it sounds to have an OS that can be managed and recovered from a command
line!), but the learning curve is looking mostly like a wall at this point.
Now I'm off on my next quest -- getting FreeBSD back on the PC -- had to wipe it
to try getting X to work. Turns out the CD has trouble reading key files during
the install, so now I can copy them to a Linux partition, boot from floppy, and
install using the files on the hard drive. Then I'll go for getting NT on again.
Phew!!
Thanks for the suggestions.
etharp wrote:
> I hope this doesn't sound to stupid, i don't have this card, but since you
> set it with the floppy, have you tried resetting the bios to one of the
> other settings like auto? (me no guru-just turky wantting to learn)
>
> On Monday 04 June 2001 13:39, you wrote:
> > etharp -- yes, in the BIOS I have PnP OS set to No, and Resources are
> > configured Manually, w/ IRQ10 set to LEGACY ISA. I ran the nic diags util
> > (off a DOS floppy) just to check, and the settings are correct -- no PnP
> > support, set to I 10 / P 300 (BTW, the nic is an ISA).
> >
> > mshinet -- not sure I completely understand you. I tried lsmod and got:
> >
> > Module Size Used by
> > autofs 9232 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> > supermount 32496 4 (autoclean
> >
> > cat /proc/pci gives:
> >
> > PCI devices found:
> > Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> > Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C597 [Apollo VP3] (rev 4).
> > Master Capable. Latency=32.
> > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xebffffff].
> > Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
> > PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x
> > AGP] (rev 0).
> > Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
> > Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP]
> > (rev 71).
> > Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
> > IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
> > Master Capable. Latency=32.
> > I/O at 0xe000 [0xe00f].
> > Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
> > Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 16).
> > Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
> > VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 4).
> > IRQ 11.
> > Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
> > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed000000 [0xed07ffff].
> > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe7ffffff].
> >
> > The output from dmesg is attached, but I could see nothing to indicate a
> > problem with either the resources or the network.
> >
> > mshinet wrote:
> > > lsmod can see moules
> > > dmesg|more
> > > cat /proc/pci
> > > see the modules added already??
> > > and irq had confict with other??
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David Beahm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 5:01 AM
> > > Subject: [newbie] network problems
> > >
> > > HW:
> > > Epox mbd, w/ resources set manually,
> > > AMD K6-2/350, 256MB SDRAM
> > > 3Com 3c509, port=300, irq=10
> > >
> > > Everything worked ok under Windows.
> > >
> > > Just installed Mandrake 8.0 Standard Edition, and everything appears fine
> > > except
> > > the network (internal LAN). On one level it appears to be configured,
> > > but on
> > > another level something is wrong. When I try to ping anything (including
> > > myself)
> > > I get: Network is unreachable
> > > (I can ping the loopback (127.0.0.1), but that's pointless).
> > >
> > > The clearest indicator I've found in my searching is during interactive
> > > bootup:
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o.gz invalid parm_io
> > > and
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o.gz insmod eth0 failed
> > >
> > > When I use draknet I get stuck in an infinite loop where it asks me what
> > > card
> > > to try, then fails to locate it and asks again. I checked the resources,
> > > and
> > > there aren't any conflicts. And to dispell any doubts, the case is open
> > > -- the card is a 3Com Etherlink III 3C509b.
> > >
> > > Running netconf, the settings are:
> > > Host name + domain: me.ohmy.com
> > > Enabled on
> > > Config mode: Manual
> > > Primary name + domain: me.ohmy.com
> > > IP address: 153.6.76.76
> > > Netmask: 255.255.0.0
> > > Net device: eth0
> > > Kernal module: 3c509
> > > I/O port: 300
> > > Irq: 10
> > >
> > > Looking thru the archives, I saw ifconfig used, so I tried it.
> > > #ifconfig
> > > lo Link encap: Local Loopback
> > > inet addr: 127.0.0.0 netmask: 255.0.0.0
> > > ...
> > > #ifconfig eth0
> > > eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> > >
> > > All attempts to configure eth0 (not that I know what I'm doing) result
> > > in: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> > > address: Host name lookup failure
> > >
> > > Got a clue I could use? TIA.
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