I'm having a little trouble doing an NFS install on a machine with a 3com 3c509 card ( 3 ports ) for Debian 2.2r2.
I start the installation and after a while reach the stage where I need to load the module for this card: this I do and the module installation proceeds with no erros. ( I use the default settings of io=0 and irq=0 to probe the card. ) I then configure the network. However, although the settings reported by ifconfig eth0 are correct ( they are the same irq and io that do work with OpenBSD and NetBSD on the same machine ) nothing happens on the half-installed Debian: pinging other machines on the network fails to illicit any response. cat /proc/ioports gives the correct values, but cat /proc/interrupts shows 0 against the card/irq. lsmod shews the 3c509 module to be installed. Help ! I'm at a loss as to what the problem is, and I don't know what to do about it. Thanks for any help ... -- Harry Newton harry_newton at telinco.co.uk www.gaudeamus.telinco.co.uk/html/gpg.html