On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 17:04, Anders Johansson wrote:

so don't pass io as a parm for 3c509. Try seeing if the values can be changed in the bios instead. Maybe there's a collision with something else?!

The IO and IRQ of the card, as well as the mode of the card (P&P or no) are changed by using the applications on the disk at this address: http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp?selected=6&sort=effdt&sku=3C509B&order=desc I havn't had to use one in several months, but I think you may have to boot with DrDOS (or another DOS) floppy to run the app. You have to set the ethernet card itself into manual (not P&P) mode this way, or else it will misbehave. You should also be able to set the IO address and IRQ for the card this way. David A. Riggs

Actually, there were some plug and play issues which changed between 7.1 and 7.2 (i believe, may have been 7 to 7.1). These caused some problems with network cards which were reported in the SuSE support database. Did not specifically mention the 3c509 though, but a good possibility. 01/12/02 04:45:24 PM, "Stan Koper" wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Riggs" To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] 3c509 module won't install

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The IO and IRQ of the card, as well as the mode of the card (P&P or no) are changed by using the applications on the disk at this address:

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp?selected=6&sort=effdt&sku=3C50 9B&order=desc

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I havn't had to use one in several months, but I think you may have to boot with DrDOS (or another DOS) floppy to run the app. You have to set the ethernet card itself into manual (not P&P) mode this way, or else it will misbehave. You should also be able to set the IO address and IRQ for the card this way.

David A. Riggs

David,

Ah yes, DR DOS. I have an MSDOS 6.2 disk that I use for that purpose, and I'll run it to make sure that it isn't set for PnP. But remember, SuSE 7.0 didn't have any problem with the card.

Thanks,

Stan

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