From: Michael Long Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:39:53 -0500 Message-Id: <00112721120200.03453@zues> Subject: Re[2]: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC See comments below for results so far... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:

Hi,

For a 3Com 3c509b ( as stated in the subject ) you would first of all ( before trying to use the card ) have to do the following:

1) Aqquire the program 3c5x9cfg.exe from ftp.3com.com ( or www ) 2) Copy the program to a DOS formatted floppy 3) Boot the machine into DOS 4) Start the program

got a divide by 0 overflow error

5) Select configure card. If you have Plug-and-Play set to on, I recommend setting it to off, save the settings and goto step 3 6) Set the card to a fixed IRQ/IO ( I usually use IRQ 5,9,10 or 12 depending on what hardware is availble, and IO 0x320 or 0x360 ) 7) Save the settings to the card 8) Start Linux, ( single user mode would be fine ) and try: modprobe 3c509 if it doesn't complain, and if you can use ifconfig eth0 ( or eth1.. ) then it did the trick :-)

modprobe found the card did: ifconfig eth1 192.168.100.1 broadcast 192.168.100.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 response: SCIOSCIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable lsmod shows: 3c509 5964 0 (unused) <p>>

Happy hacking.

-tosi

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:40:31AM -0800, michael long wrote:

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This is a second card being installed in the machine. When I run yast2 it finds the first card but not the 3com. I can go to yast and configure eth0 and eth1 but eth1 (the 3com) is never activated. Are there any error logs that would record what is happening?

...

--- Original Message --- From: Mark Robinson To: Jyry Kuukkanen Date: 11/27/00 3:20:30 PM

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Hello Jyry,

Monday, 27 November 2000, you wrote:

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Has anyone configured this card successfully with suse70? JK> Works within 1min. I have a 3c905x, and it was autodetected and runs fine lsmod shows 3c90x 20240 1 (autoclean)

What errors are you getting?

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From: Michael Long Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:48:06 -0500 Message-Id: <00112821503902.01806@zues> Subject: Re: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC - Chap 2 Oops... This was not supposed to go out :-( I'm still learning the ins and outs of Kmail. The next message is the right one. On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Michael Long wrote:

Its time to go back to basics.

Hardware: KT7-Raid MB Athlon 800 256MB ram

Dual Boot OS: Suse 7.0 Win98

When booting into windows both cards are recognized and configured properly. When in dos the standard 3com driver gives a divide by 0 error which 3com says can happen on faster machines. They offer an unsupported driver for such machines.

Download unsupported driver Do: 3c5x9 configure /pnp:disable Result: LSL not loaded

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Michael Long wrote:

...

See comments below for results so far...

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:

...

Hi,

For a 3Com 3c509b ( as stated in the subject ) you would first of all ( before trying to use the card ) have to do the following:

1) Aqquire the program 3c5x9cfg.exe from ftp.3com.com ( or www ) 2) Copy the program to a DOS formatted floppy 3) Boot the machine into DOS 4) Start the program

got a divide by 0 overflow error

...

5) Select configure card. If you have Plug-and-Play set to on, I recommend setting it to off, save the settings and goto step 3 6) Set the card to a fixed IRQ/IO ( I usually use IRQ 5,9,10 or 12 depending on what hardware is availble, and IO 0x320 or 0x360 ) 7) Save the settings to the card 8) Start Linux, ( single user mode would be fine ) and try: modprobe 3c509 if it doesn't complain, and if you can use ifconfig eth0 ( or eth1.. ) then it did the trick :-)

modprobe found the card did: ifconfig eth1 192.168.100.1 broadcast 192.168.100.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 response: SCIOSCIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable

lsmod shows: 3c509 5964 0 (unused)

...

Happy hacking.

-tosi

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:40:31AM -0800, michael long wrote:

...

This is a second card being installed in the machine. When I run yast2 it finds the first card but not the 3com. I can go to yast and configure eth0 and eth1 but eth1 (the 3com) is never activated. Are there any error logs that would record what is happening?

...

--- Original Message --- From: Mark Robinson To: Jyry Kuukkanen Date: 11/27/00 3:20:30 PM

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Hello Jyry,

Monday, 27 November 2000, you wrote:

...

> Has anyone configured this card successfully with suse70? JK> Works within 1min. I have a 3c905x, and it was autodetected and runs fine lsmod shows 3c90x 20240 1 (autoclean)

What errors are you getting?

Mark mailto:mcr@reason-technology.com

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From: Michael Long Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:11:38 -0500 Message-Id: <00120415200300.01237@zues> Subject: Re: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC - Chap 2 Thanks to everyone who responded to my plea for help. My problem turned out to be caused by a conflict in my shared ISA/PCI slot. After installing a Realtek 8139 pci card it was immediatly recognized. Now on to configuration issues. Does anyone know why it is would be necessary to run YAST2 to configure a network card after every reboot? It was my understanding that YAST2 would write the settings to the startup scripts so that the network would start everytime. On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:

Hi

You can also tweak 3x509 settings using 3c5x9setup program that comes with Suse (section Net, package Netdiag).

--jq

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Michael Long wrote:

...

Oops... This was not supposed to go out :-( I'm still learning the ins and outs of Kmail. The next message is the right one.

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Michael Long wrote:

...

Its time to go back to basics.

Hardware: KT7-Raid MB Athlon 800 256MB ram

Dual Boot OS: Suse 7.0 Win98

When booting into windows both cards are recognized and configured properly. When in dos the standard 3com driver gives a divide by 0 error which 3com says can happen on faster machines. They offer an unsupported driver for such machines.

Download unsupported driver Do: 3c5x9 configure /pnp:disable Result: LSL not loaded

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Michael Long wrote:

...

See comments below for results so far...

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:

...

Hi,

For a 3Com 3c509b ( as stated in the subject ) you would first of all ( before trying to use the card ) have to do the following:

1) Aqquire the program 3c5x9cfg.exe from ftp.3com.com ( or www ) 2) Copy the program to a DOS formatted floppy 3) Boot the machine into DOS 4) Start the program

got a divide by 0 overflow error

...

5) Select configure card. If you have Plug-and-Play set to on, I recommend setting it to off, save the settings and goto step 3 6) Set the card to a fixed IRQ/IO ( I usually use IRQ 5,9,10 or 12 depending on what hardware is availble, and IO 0x320 or 0x360 ) 7) Save the settings to the card 8) Start Linux, ( single user mode would be fine ) and try: modprobe 3c509 if it doesn't complain, and if you can use ifconfig eth0 ( or eth1.. ) then it did the trick :-)

modprobe found the card did: ifconfig eth1 192.168.100.1 broadcast 192.168.100.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 response: SCIOSCIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable

lsmod shows: 3c509 5964 0 (unused)

...

Happy hacking.

-tosi

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:40:31AM -0800, michael long wrote:

...

This is a second card being installed in the machine. When I run yast2 it finds the first card but not the 3com. I can go to yast and configure eth0 and eth1 but eth1 (the 3com) is never activated. Are there any error logs that would record what is happening?

>--- Original Message --- >From: Mark Robinson >To: Jyry Kuukkanen >Date: 11/27/00 3:20:30 PM >

>Hello Jyry, > >Monday, 27 November 2000, you wrote: > >>> Has anyone configured this card successfully with suse70? >JK> Works within 1min. >I have a 3c905x, and it was autodetected and runs fine >lsmod shows >3c90x 20240 1 (autoclean) > >What errors are you getting? > > > Mark mailto:mcr@reason-technology.com > > >

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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 12:37:43 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Thomas Message-ID: Subject: Re: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC - Chap 2 On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Robert Sweet wrote: Wow, if any message deserved to be clipped this was it. Greg

Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:26:01 +0800 From: Robert Sweet Message-ID: <20001128192601.A32664@sc-24-130-150-58.socal.rr.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC - Chap 2 On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Michael Long wrote:

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

...

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 | |

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:

...

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

...

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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Message-ID: <3A33A3FB.4EE971FC@iname.com> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:40:43 +0000 From: Chris Reeves Subject: Re: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC - Here's the way I did it. Michael Long wrote:

When I add this line to the file I get a message telling me that /etc/modules.conf is newer than /lib/modules/2.2.16/modules.dep and still no

You can get rid of this error message by running depmod -a, but unfortunately that doesn't help solve your problem... That suggestion that someone made of putting the 'sleep x' lines in sounds promising though.

network upon reboot. Only after running /sbin/init.d/dhclient start /usr/sbin/rcnetwork restart /sbin/init.d/firewall restart does the network start.

BTW, I am using 2 identical realtek 8139 NIC cards.

On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, John Meyer wrote:

...

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.

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Message-ID: <3A32593C.A03F170C@iname.com> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 16:09:32 +0000 From: Chris Reeves Subject: Re: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC - Chap 2 Michael Long wrote:

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

Check that there are links in /sbin/init.d/rc2.d and /sbin/init.d/rc3.d that start with S, then a number, and then end in dhclient, network and firewall. Maybe these links haven't been made automatically for some reason?

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

This is the hardware address of the adapter. You may need to change this.

...

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.

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From: Michael Long Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:39:59 -0500 Message-Id: <00112821432501.01806@zues> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [SLE] 3com 3c509b NIC Things are getting closer. When I do ifconfig eth1 192.168.100.1 broadcast 192.168.100.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 I get SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable what does this mean. Also I must run YAST2 everytime I boot the machine to configure eth0. How do I get these settings to stick? Thanks for all the help, Mike On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:

Hi,

For a 3Com 3c509b ( as stated in the subject ) you would first of all ( before trying to use the card ) have to do the following:

1) Aqquire the program 3c5x9cfg.exe from ftp.3com.com ( or www ) 2) Copy the program to a DOS formatted floppy 3) Boot the machine into DOS 4) Start the program 5) Select configure card. If you have Plug-and-Play set to on, I recommend setting it to off, save the settings and goto step 3 6) Set the card to a fixed IRQ/IO ( I usually use IRQ 5,9,10 or 12 depending on what hardware is availble, and IO 0x320 or 0x360 ) 7) Save the settings to the card 8) Start Linux, ( single user mode would be fine ) and try: modprobe 3c509 if it doesn't complain, and if you can use ifconfig eth0 ( or eth1.. ) then it did the trick :-)

Happy hacking.

-tosi

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:40:31AM -0800, michael long wrote:

...

This is a second card being installed in the machine. When I run yast2 it finds the first card but not the 3com. I can go to yast and configure eth0 and eth1 but eth1 (the 3com) is never activated. Are there any error logs that would record what is happening?

...

--- Original Message --- From: Mark Robinson To: Jyry Kuukkanen Date: 11/27/00 3:20:30 PM

...

Hello Jyry,

Monday, 27 November 2000, you wrote:

...

...

Has anyone configured this card successfully with suse70? JK> Works within 1min. I have a 3c905x, and it was autodetected and runs fine lsmod shows 3c90x 20240 1 (autoclean)

What errors are you getting?

Mark mailto:mcr@reason-technology.com

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