Very Computer

by **Stephen Franci** » Tue, 29 Oct 1996 04:00:00

OK,

I've got a couple of Dell P90's with this 3c509 card in them. One of
them is running Linux 1.2.13 perfectly, absolutely NO problems.

The other one I am trying to get working with Linux 2.0.x but I
keep getting the Initialization failure messages out of rc.inet1
I also have an OS/2 partition on this same box (using lilo) and
OS/2 works fine with this 3c509, talking to dozens of other boxes
on the network without incident, so it is the Linux setup and
not hardware...

I have rebuilt the kernel a zillion times. The IO, IRQ, etc... are
fine - I have downloaded, compiled and run 3cx59set utility, trying
different IRQs, although I know what is correct. I have cat'd
/proc/ioports and irqs and everything looks fine. I am running
with the most current 3c509.c (06/15/95) - Strangely, when booting,
the card is detected:

mybox kernel: eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af
31 c8 d2, IRQ 15

and yet I get the "Your ethernet card was not initialized properly..."
from rc.inet1, and the proposed reasons/solutions are all wrong.

I am not using ANY modules at all right now (I have tried every which
way) and this is a PCI machine.

I have been messing with this for long enough to where some of the folks
who I am trying to turn-on to linux are getting very skeptical, thus
bumming me further. What might be causing these headaches, and why
isn't it in the faq/howto yet? ;-) Once figured out, it will be if
I have my way!

Stephen
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by **Eddy Chi** » Tue, 29 Oct 1996 04:00:00

Quote:> OK,

> I've got a couple of Dell P90's with this 3c509 card in them. One of
> them is running Linux 1.2.13 perfectly, absolutely NO problems.

> The other one I am trying to get working with Linux 2.0.x but I
> keep getting the Initialization failure messages out of rc.inet1
> I also have an OS/2 partition on this same box (using lilo) and
> OS/2 works fine with this 3c509, talking to dozens of other boxes
> on the network without incident, so it is the Linux setup and
> not hardware...

> I have rebuilt the kernel a zillion times. The IO, IRQ, etc... are
> fine - I have downloaded, compiled and run 3cx59set utility, trying
> different IRQs, although I know what is correct. I have cat'd
> /proc/ioports and irqs and everything looks fine. I am running
> with the most current 3c509.c (06/15/95) - Strangely, when booting,
> the card is detected:

> mybox kernel: eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What kind of network connection you have? 10BaseT or 10 Base2? If you
have a 10BaseT connection, this is alright for you. We must look at
somewhere else. If you have a 10Base2 (thin ethernet) connection, you
must use the '3c5x9cfg.exe' from the 3Com driver diskette to set the
transceiver type to "On-board Coax (BNC)". The default value is "Auto
detect" which works fine with other O/S. Unfortunelly, Linux can not
take this value (I don't know why (-: ). Anyway, try this. Good luck!

- Show quoted text -

Quote:> 31 c8 d2, IRQ 15

> and yet I get the "Your ethernet card was not initialized properly..."
> from rc.inet1, and the proposed reasons/solutions are all wrong.

> I am not using ANY modules at all right now (I have tried every which
> way) and this is a PCI machine.

> I have been messing with this for long enough to where some of the
folks
> who I am trying to turn-on to linux are getting very skeptical, thus
> bumming me further. What might be causing these headaches, and why
> isn't it in the faq/howto yet? ;-) Once figured out, it will be if
> I have my way!

> Stephen
> --

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> ** Stephen Francis "The Master's words are
fingers...**
> ** WebSeer Technologies pointing at the moon. If we
**
> ** Internet/WWW Software Engineering only watch the fingers, how
**

**
> ** http://www.webseer.com
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Quote:> ** "Vu Ja De" - That incredible feeling that
**
> ** this has definitely never happened before"
> **

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by **Viktor Bobr** » Tue, 29 Oct 1996 04:00:00

If it's a Pentium box IRQ 15 might be used by sec IDE controller. Try a differnt irq

Viktor

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