Re: [TCLUG:8308] Problems configuring an ISA Pnp Ethernet card

[Tim Neu <tim@tneu.visi.com>]

The 3c509b card has a software configuration program that will set the I/O
address and IRQ of the card in hardware - esentially running in non-pnp
mode.

You sometimes have to specify the IO address in the module load command -
although I have found that most of the time it probes the correct i/o port
as long as PNP is turned off on the card. 

Whatever you do, don't turn on EISA mode - if you do, the card will be
unconfigurable until it is reset in an EISA machine... 

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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Nathan Hartzell wrote:

> I am attempting to install my 3com 3c509b ISA Ethernet card.  The module
> loads under Linux, but the card does not initialize.  Attached is a copy of
> a pnpdump from my kernel and the output from isapnp in debug mode.  After
> running isapn, the card still does not show up in lsmod.  Can anyone tell me
> what to do so that my card will initialize?  I am running Caldera OpenLinux
> 2.2 with no major updates.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nathan Hartzell
> 
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