Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find the floppy disk that came with your 3com card and run it (I'm afraid you'll have to boot a DOS floppy to do that). There's also a place where you can get the 3com configuration utility over the net, someone please tell us. http://infodeli.3com.com. It comes in the form of an LHA self-extracting .exe file which expands to the contents of the floppy. -- Shields, CrossLink. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
I have both the dos and linux versions of the 3c509 config program. The linux version can be found from ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/setup/ . There seems to be a new version of the program, dated 12/11/96. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/linux.html has stuff about linux network drivers and config programs. But back to the mission impossible. Last night I tried with different irq and base io addresses using both the dos and linux version of the config programs. The linux version finds the cards, tells the irq and io address but insmod fails. The command I used is 'insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' or whatever irq and base address I happened to try at the moment. The card works fine with Win NT and dos, so it'll have to work with linux too. I guess I'll try the boot floppies from November and see if the program goes away. Is it ok to compile 2.0.27 kernel on a different machine with only the necessary drivers and then put that on the resque disk? It's easy to open the image file with the loopback device and do the modifications. I guess I'll try that too. Find the floppy disk that came with your 3com card and run it (I'm afraid you'll have to boot a DOS floppy to do that). There's also a place where you can get the 3com configuration utility over the net, someone please tell us. It'll tell you what address the card is configured for, or will allow you to reconfigure it. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But back to the mission impossible. Last night I tried with different irq and base io addresses using both the dos and linux version of the config programs. The linux version finds the cards, tells the irq and io address but insmod fails. The command I used is 'insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' or whatever irq and base address I happened to try at the moment. How does exactly insmod fails? What are the error messages? I'm loading the 3c509 module from kernel 2.0.23 here without any trouble. All I need to do is to include a line with 3c509 in /etc/modules, and a line with options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 in /etc/conf.modules. Everything works really nice with only that. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
Thaks for your mail. I made a record of the terminal session and I'm attaching it here. I made a completely fresh install with the 1996-12-8 floppies and only selected nfs from the device driver modules. I tried to install 3c509 but it failed with or without the irq and base io given as parameter. I also tried the boot floppies from November but they didn't fix the 3com problem either. The motherboard is a Tyan TomcatIII, and there's also a SoundBlaster 32 PnP installed. You wrote: How does exactly insmod fails? What are the error messages? I'm loading the 3c509 module from kernel 2.0.23 here without any trouble. All I need to do is to include a line with 3c509 in /etc/modules, and a line with options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 in /etc/conf.modules. Everything works really nice with only that. After the first reboot I installed 3c5x9 configure program and the bsdutils package so I could use script to record the session. The 3c509 card was first initialized in dos to it's default settings. Here's the transcript. The new 3c5x9 setup program says that the card is active but there was no such message with the previous version dated 6/9/95. Script started on Thu Dec 12 21:55:41 1996 # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: nfs 124 # ./3c5x9 -v 3c5x9setup.c:v0.04 12/11/96 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be an active. Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag. # ./3c5x9 -f 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x300, IRQ 10, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # insmod 3c509 io=0x300 Initialization of 3c509 failed # insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10 Initialization of 3c509 failed # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: nfs 124 # ./3c509 --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be an active. Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag. # ./3c5x9 -f --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Would write new IRQ entry 0x7f00 (old value 0xaf00). Would write new transceiver/IO entry 0x0001 (old value 0x0010). Would write new checksum entry 0x7a71 (old value 0x7ab0). (The new EEPROM values will not be written without the '-w' flag.) Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # ./3c5x9 -f -w --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Writing new IRQ entry 0x7f00. Writing new transceiver/IO entry 0x0001. Writing new checksum entry 0x7a71. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # ./3c5x9 -f -w --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # insmod 3c509 Initialization of 3c509 failed # insmod 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 Initialization of 3c509 failed # cat /proc/interrupts 0: 51951 timer 1: 1893 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 8: 0 + rtc 13: 1 math error 14: 7263 + ide0 15: 99 + ide1 # cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-009f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR # cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 17, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe080. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x9000. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. # exit Script done on Thu Dec 12 22:00:20 1996 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Vatiainen Heikki wrote: Thaks for your mail. I made a record of the terminal session and I'm attaching it here. I made a completely fresh install with the 1996-12-8 floppies and only selected nfs from the device driver modules. I tried to install 3c509 but it failed with or without the irq and base io given as parameter. I also tried the boot floppies from November but they didn't fix the 3com problem either. The motherboard is a Tyan TomcatIII, and there's also a SoundBlaster 32 PnP installed. And that together with the PnP motherboard is the problem. Get isapnp, run pnpdump before loading the modules and all is fine. I put the following in /etc/init.d/boot if [ -x /sbin/pnpdump ]; then echo Deconfiguring PnP devices pnpdump /dev/null fi (This problem had driven me mad for about a day, Hope it helps you) Nils -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
Last night I tried to install Debian 1.2 to my new PC using the boot floppies 1996-12-8. I was going to install the packages over ftp either with dselect or by first downloading them after the initial boot disk install. The installation went smoothly until it was time to configure the device drivers. I have a 3com Etherlink III (3c509b) ISA card left from my old computer so I selected the 3c509 module from the list of network adapters and went on to install it. First I tried to install it with no parameters and the driver complained that auto-probing the card is not reliable and the installation did not succeed. After guessing some parameters and how to give them I went on without being able to load the 3c509 driver. The rest of the installation went just fine and I got the base system installed. After the first reboot, I telneted from DOS to my linux box at work and checked the modules.txt in the linux source 'Documentation' directory. There was an example that mentioned you can put a line like 'options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' in the /etc/modules.conf file. I went on and booted to linux, edited the /etc/conf.modules file and also put a line 'alias eth0 3c509' in it. This did not help. Giving 'ether=10,0x300,eth0' as an argument to the kernel during the boot did not help, messing with plug and play did not help, trying to reinstall and configuring 3c509 with the parameters 'io=0x300 irq=10' did not help. I even tried the io base 0x310 but this did not help either. In short, the 3c509 module failed every time to initialize the card either during the boot or when loading the module. The booting also took really long and it was a pain to try out different combinations. I noticed that there is a Mitsumi cd-rom driver trying to probe something at io base 0x300 and irq11, I wonder if this can disturb the 3com card at io0x300, irq10. Otherwise the installation went just fine. Especially I liked the idea of configuring the keyboard as the first thing. It helps a lot if you don't know the US layout. I also put a hard drive from my old computer to the new one which had the /home partition from my previous linux installation. The adduser(?) program noticed this and made the uid-username mapping right and did not try to create any new directories. Very smart and nice feature. Thanks for any help, // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
