by I had the same problem initially, but I managed to resolve it by
disabling the plug&play support on both the motherboard BIOS and
on the 3c509b card. You can disable plug&play on the card by
using the 3c5x9n.exe config utility that comes with the driver
disk.
Hope that helps.
-MH
: > I'm having problems with getting the 3c509 working. In fact, it
: > doesn't work at all. When booting Linux seems to find the card all
: > right, it says:
: >
: > "eth0: 3c509 at 0x210 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 20 af 5c 75 cb, IRQ 12."
: >
: > This is correct. But shortly after it says:
: >
: > "el3_interrupt(): irq 12 for unknown device."
: I also have a 3c509B ethernet card I can't get to work. I'm using the
: 1.1.59 kernal and even when I set the 3c509 driver as the only ethernet
: driver I compile in I can't get any recognition at all.
: I've tried adding parameters to LILO to pass to the kernal as follows:
: APPEND=ether="10,0x300,,,eth0
: But that doesn't have any effect. I don't even get the recognition
: message you get above! I'm quite new at this and I'm starting to get
: suspicious that the changes I've made to the kernal config file
: 'config.in' are somehow not ending up in the kernal after all the make,
: compile, and copy steps.
: I don't know much about this so if this is a stupid question please have
: patience: a cat /proc/devices shows a bunch of devices but no eth's
: however it does show a nec520 (I think that's the number) which I believe
: is an IDE CD-ROM which I have explicitly not compiled for in the
: config.in! Perhaps this is a red herring. Inquiring minds want to know
: ;-) I'm going to take a closer look at the compile messages tomorow when
: I make the kernal and try and make sure that sc509.c is actually compiled
: in.
: --
: --thanks, Stephen Bannasch
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