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Hi Folks

I have a problem getting my mandrake 7.2 to work with a 3com509b.

The set-up is as follows :- I have a LAN with 3 windoze PCs and a dual boot
windoze/Mandrake 7.2. There is also a smoothwall 0.9.8 firewall which also
acts as a DHCP server.
The 3 windoze PCs get DHCP allocated addresses etc. no problem from the DHCP
server and the dual boot pc does ok when in windoze.
However when in Linux the following happens :- tailing the messages file on
the DHCP server I see the mandrake PC request an address; the DHCP server
allocates an address then the mandrake PC requests an address again and so
on for 4 or 5 times then it times out and gives up. If I set a static IP
address on the mandrake box and attempt to ping the DHCP server I get a 'no
route to host' error even though I have set the address correctly
(10.0.0.150) and the netmask (255.255.255.0 class C) and the default gateway
(10.0.0.254) which is the smoothwall/DHCP server.

The Hub port lights up ok and mandrake sees the card and recognises it in
harddrake so now I'm stuck !!

any clues anyone ??

Best Regards

Steve Oatway

First of all when you do, 'ifconfig eth0' does it say "UP" before broadcast?

Quote:>Hi Folks

>I have a problem getting my mandrake 7.2 to work with a 3com509b.

>The set-up is as follows :- I have a LAN with 3 windoze PCs and a dual boot
>windoze/Mandrake 7.2. There is also a smoothwall 0.9.8 firewall which also
>acts as a DHCP server.
>The 3 windoze PCs get DHCP allocated addresses etc. no problem from the
DHCP
>server and the dual boot pc does ok when in windoze.
>However when in Linux the following happens :- tailing the messages file on
>the DHCP server I see the mandrake PC request an address; the DHCP server
>allocates an address then the mandrake PC requests an address again and so
>on for 4 or 5 times then it times out and gives up. If I set a static IP
>address on the mandrake box and attempt to ping the DHCP server I get a 'no
>route to host' error even though I have set the address correctly
>(10.0.0.150) and the netmask (255.255.255.0 class C) and the default
gateway
>(10.0.0.254) which is the smoothwall/DHCP server.

>The Hub port lights up ok and mandrake sees the card and recognises it in
>harddrake so now I'm stuck !!

>any clues anyone ??

>Best Regards

>Steve Oatway

Hi

Yep ifconfig shows the card up and working and the light on the back is on
as is the light on the hub. I checked the irq and i/o that windoze says the
card uses and set them in the modules.conf file with the alias.

I had the following problem with my 3c509b ISA card:
card was showing up on IRQ 10 and ifconfig reported it up but it was
unpingable.  The problem: on newer motherboards, IRQs are not
automatically reserved for ISA devices, since they are considered
legacy.  I had to go into the BIOS setup and specifically reserve IRQ
10 for the card (after first checking /proc/interrupts to make sure
nothing else was using it) and also reserve an I/O range.  The card
now works fine.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:48:27 +0100, "Steve Oatway"