3com 3c509b NIC - Here's the way I did it.

From: "John Meyer" Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 08:31:12 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: 3com 3c509b NIC - Here's the way I did it. For my card, I simply went into /etc/conf.modules and typed this: options eth0 irq=7 Seemed to work like a charm, but I'm not so sure that's the best way to do it. -----Original Message----- From: Tor Sigurdsson [mailto:tosi@suse.starf.rhi.hi.is] Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 6:43 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC - Chap 2 <p>Hi, What is it exactly that you are trying to accomplish ? Do you have two 3c509 cards ? Please, for those that reply to this thread: 3c509 is NOT a PCI card, and thus catting /proc/pci is totally useless :-) Also, if you have two 3c509 card, the second card WILL be problematic ! ( my firewall has two of them, and here is my solution that I use :) In /sbin/init.d/network I added the following lines to the script making sure that the interface was loaded ( compare to your own script to see the differences ) *******************************************+ case "$1" in start) /sbin/rmmod 3c509 sleep 4 /sbin/modprobe 3c509 sleep 4 ifconfig eth1 sleep 2 /sbin/rmmod 3c509 sleep 4 /sbin/modprobe 3c509 sleep 2 ifconfig eth1 for I in $NETCONFIG; do ******************************************** See ? It's kinda dumb, but it actually works. It seems that with more than one 3c509, the cards don't register correctly ( or fast enough ) with the networking subsystem. This seems to correct the problem... Also, I don't have any append=" line in lilo.conf, as that didn't help any in my situation. Hope this helps. -tosi On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:26:01PM +0800, Robert Sweet wrote:

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Michael Long wrote:

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I have tried RTFM, searching the suse website, emailing suse support and am still at a loss. When the system boots the network does not come up. After running the following scripts the network starts up.

/sbin/init.d/dhclient restart /usr/sbin/rcnetwork restart /sbin/init.d/firewall restart

I added the following line in lilo with no affect. append="eth0=0xfce0,eth0 eth1=0x300,eth1" What does 0xfce0 represent?

Sorry for the frequency of my questions on this subject, but as you can tell I am new to both Linux and configuring networks.

Thanks, Mike

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Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq If you have more than one nic, you will need to edit lilo.conf:

append="eth0=0xfce0,eth0 eth1=0x300,eth1"

Otherwise only one may show up. I use yast1 for nic setup. -- rsweet@socal.rr.com | Baker's First Law of Federal -o) | Geometry: A block grant is a Linux, the Choice /\ | solid mass of money surrounded of a GNU generation _\_v | on all sides by governors. Sorry, you need to put your own hardware info... 0xfce0 is from /proc/pci:

Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. I/O at 0xfce0 [0xfce1]. If you do a less or cat /proc/pci it will give you the hardware address. You are telling the system "Hey I have 2 ethernets, one at XXXXXXX and one at XXXXXX. Hope that clarifies things. -- rsweet@socal.rr.com | Maternity pay? Now every Tom, -o) | Dick and Harry will get Linux, the Choice /\ | pregnant. -- Malcolm Smith of a GNU generation _\_v | |

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