1. 3COM 3c509 problems - yes, I've tried EVERYTHING from howto, newsgroups, etc...
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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