Actually I have the application (3c5x9cfg.exe) if you need it. It's on 3com's website, but it's a hassle to find. I can send you the disk images and you can open it from there. I just sys'd a floppy from an old dos box and copied the cfg util over. I have a box with two 3c509 pnp cards in it. Had to disable the pnp to get it to go, but 7.3 handled everything else fine. L

-----Original Message----- From: John Ross Hunt [mailto:johnrosshunt@attbi.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:44 PM To: SuSE-Linux-E@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] 3c509 networking woes

Refresh my memory, this is an old ISA PNP-Combo card, right?

I think you need to boot to dos and run the setup program to reprogram the EPROM (probably available from 3com's driver download). Make sure that PNP is turned OFF and set the interface manually to 10baseT, or whatever's appropriate. That should be it, really. I'd power down my system and check the settings, but I'm at work. And besides, it's the gateway to my cable modem and two internal segments (yes two), one 10baseT and one 10base2 for my ancient MicroVAX. ;) It's been running SuSE 6.3 faithfully without a crash (with the exception of a few power outages and a single disk crash) for several years.

Just because the distribution has no support doesn't mean it's broken.

Good luck,

-- John Ross Hunt

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