Thanks Nils, your PnP fix solved the problem. I was just about to start removing the cards and changing their places, but luckily I don't have to do it.
Problem description: I have a new computer with Tyan TomcatIII main board, Plug n' Play aware BIOS, Sound Blaster 32 PnP card and a 3com 3c509b (Etherlink III) ISA card (PnP disabled). I was trying to install Debian 1.2 but the device driver module for the 3c509 card failed to load during the initial installation and in every reboot. The message from insmod was following: 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA bus!! Initialization of 3c509 failed Adding parameters as 'insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' only suppressed the warning about probing, the initialization still failed. The io and irq values were correct. The solution: Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated that the SB 32 PnP with the PnP motheboard causes the problem. His fix was to get the isapnptools (isapnp and pnpdump) and add the following lines in /etc/init.d/boot if [ -x /sbin/pnpdump ]; then echo "Deconfiguring PnP devices" /sbin/pnpdump > /dev/null f The isapnptools (I used version 1.8) package can be found from http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/other.html Some notes: After getting the isapnptools I reinstalled everything. Just before selecting the driver for 3c509 from the device driver modules, I switched to another virtual console and manually did command 'pnpdump'. However this didn't work because of unresolved symbol '_ioperm'. After 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/target/lib' the pnpdump command succeeded. Right after the pnpdump command I edited the /target/etc/init.d/boot file and inserted the lines above before the lines that load any modules needed. After that I switched back to the installation program, loaded the 3c509 module and finished the install. The reboot was successful and everything works now just fine. The auto-probe works too. It does give the warning but the module loads ok. Thanks again Nils and everybody else who also offered their help. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
