From: Maurizio Firmani
To: SuSE mailing list Subject: Re: [SLE] 3com509 weirdness Date: Monday, 6 March 2000 0:46 Ciao
This card is really weird. I experienced that with io=0x300 and IRQ=10
kernel driver is loaded but not a single network tool works, not even
lets face it the 509 card (in all it's variants) is wierd. At work we have seven drivers for it, just because some drivers will work faster (less cpu or faster packet throughput) with some hardware revisions and in one case we are DELETING a 1998 variant from our machines as we found it uses 5% more cpu power than the rest. Even 3COM by now must hate a call when you mention this card. csijon ---------- the ping. I
had to use IRQ=11 to get connected with the outside world.
Maurizio
Il dom, 05 mar 2000, Dennis Soper ha scritto:
On 4 Mar 00, at 13:41, wulfie wrote:
I always compile the 3C509 into the kernel. Try using the module without parameters & let it autoprobe (this is the only way to get it working using an installation kernel).........
I'll try that-- I just need to get it talking on the network long enough t get to out kernel mirrors site (I *like* working for a university).
Just re-read this. Are you trying tp pass "parm_io=0x300" for instance? THis should be "io=0x300" without the "parm..."
That's the odd thing, as I expected to find an error such as above in the config file. I will say that I use 3com cards pretty much exclusively at work, and I've had *lots* of trouble using them with SuSE-customized kernels.
Cheers, Dennis
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Dennis Soper wrote:
Hi all,
I went to set up a Samba print server today using 6.2. The box is an AST p90 with 24MB RAM. I put a 3com509 in the box and when I rebooted, I got the following message:
/lib/modules/../3c509.o invalid parameter parm_io
and the module failed to load.
I looked in /etc/conf.modules and found: alias eth0 .... options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10
as I configured it. I rebuilt the kernel and it didn't fix it. Neither did changing the card. Plug-n-pray is turned off and the card is configured at io=300 and irq=10.
Anyone have an idea of what's wrong here? The card is a 3com509b TPO.
Thanks in advance, Dennis "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin
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