Forget this DOS program, go to http://www.scyld.com/diag-html/3c5x9setup.html and you will be able to configure your 3c509 from Linux On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 13:42, Philip B Cook wrote:

Thanks Nick,

I configured it with the 3Com DOS prog. Removed Plug & Pray . Tests worked OK on I/O 300 IRQ 5 I was then able to config using Yast2.

But I still cannot get DHCPD to assign IP addresses over this interface. I had the same trouble with a previous ISA Ethernet Card which was my reason for trying the 3Com device. DHCPD works fine when I am using a PCI ethernet device as eth0 but not it seems when I use an ISA one as eth0. All my config files (named, dhcpd, SuSEfirewall2) remain unchanged.

Any ideas where else I can look.

I am stumped !

Philip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick LeRoy" To: Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [suse-security] 3C509 Ethernet Adaptor Support

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I don't know about current times, but in the past, to make Linux see 3c509 cards, you needed to run the DOS setup program (I forget what it was

called;

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you can probably still download it from 3COM's web site; failing that, I could probably scrape together a copy & email it to you) and disable the "plug & pray" feature of it. After doing that, they always worked like a charm. I most likely have at least one of them running on SuSE 8.2 at home in a least one machine.

-Nick