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> Any ideas?

> -Ed Evans

> > I'm in the process of reconnecting to my dsl serverice with RH6.2.  I
> > noticed the light on my network card was off, so I watched it during the
> > interactive boot mode, and as soon as the eth0 service starts up, the
> > light on the network card goes off.  If I don't start the "network
> > services" the light remains on.

> > Any ideas?

> > -Ed Evans

> More details please. Which card, which driver, static or DHCP? What does
> ifconfig say?

>>>I'm in the process of reconnecting to my dsl serverice with RH6.2.  I
>>>noticed the light on my network card was off, so I watched it during the
>>>interactive boot mode, and as soon as the eth0 service starts up, the
>>>light on the network card goes off.  If I don't start the "network
>>>services" the light remains on.

>>>Any ideas?

>>>-Ed Evans

>>More details please. Which card, which driver, static or DHCP? What does
>>ifconfig say?

> The card is a 3COM 509b, and the driver is 3c509.  I have a static IP.
>  I checked ifconfig on eth0 last night, and it didn't show any packet
> travel at all.  None in, none out.  I could turn the network card
> light on and off using lfup eth0 and lfdown eth0, respectively.  Kind
> of cool, but doesn't get me connected.

> This will soon be an academic exercise as I'll be wiping the machine
> soon anyway.

> -Ed Evans

> >>>I'm in the process of reconnecting to my dsl serverice with RH6.2.  I
> >>>noticed the light on my network card was off, so I watched it during the
> >>>interactive boot mode, and as soon as the eth0 service starts up, the
> >>>light on the network card goes off.  If I don't start the "network
> >>>services" the light remains on.

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>> > The card is a 3COM 509b, and the driver is 3c509.  I have a static IP.
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>> If its ISA card, there is some PnP setting you have to set to "no"
>> with setup (3c509.exe ? or smth like that should come with diskettes)

>It is an ISA, and I did run the thing to disable pnp (batch file
>called PNPDSABL.BAT or some such).

>Forgive me, for my Linux knowledge is very limited.  What
>configuration files could I look at for problems?  It seems strange to
>me that "lfup eth0" would kill my network connection, but maybe that's
>a feature?

> >>It is an ISA, and I did run the thing to disable pnp (batch file
> >>called PNPDSABL.BAT or some such).

> Disabling pnp is important in my experience.

> >>Forgive me, for my Linux knowledge is very limited.  What
> >>configuration files could I look at for problems?  It seems strange to
> >>me that "lfup eth0" would kill my network connection, but maybe that's
> >>a feature?

> If a card has only one light it's the link light. It should be lit if it
> has a connection to another card.

> > I think you might wanna look into isapnptools to set up
> > the nic.

> I wouldn't use isapnptools if you've disabled pnp on the card. Use the DOS
> utility 3c5x9cfg.exe provided with the drivers. Disable pnp, disable the
> boot ROM, set the io and irq manually, in fact, set all the other options
> manually and then do a hard reset and see where that gets you.

> I got two of these cards working in my Linux box only by setting
> _everything_ manually.

> HTH,
> Rob.