Topic: 3c509 fails with 3c59x driver

[Serge Dutremble]

I though I read this somewhere in the newsgroup but I an't seem to find it again:

The 3c509 ISA card gets detected by E-Smith and the module used is 3c59x.  The card will not work with this module and the modules.conf file must be manually changed to use the 3c509 module.

The 3c905 PCI card is also detected and the mudule used by E-Smith is again the 3c59X.  The card works OK with that module.

THe 3c509 card, although only 10Base-T, is a workhorse of a NIC and never fails.  I use it, or try to use it whenever I need to connect at a 10 MBit speed only.

Is there a way to modify the database used when configuring E-Smith so that the 3c509 card uses the proper module, available on the distribution, but NOT the 3c59X module?

If I have to do tests on installation or when I modify my hardware or IP configuration, I have to delay the reboot, manually modify the modules.conf file then reboof.  I would hope there would be a way to do it in one step instead of two.

Furthermore, I believe that using the 3c59x module for the 3c509 card is a bug.

Anyone else had this problem?

Serge.

[Mike Sensney]

I think you are looking for Darrell Mays's howto.

http://myezserver.com/docs/mitel/nic-drivers-howto.html

[Gerard]

use search with 3c509 in it,
you get 9 results, number 8 with the name Gerard behind
describes how to do this.

[Serge Dutremble]

Mike Sensney identifies a way to patch the configuation AFTER it has been run to install the system.

Gerard identifies the manual (read normal Linux) way to do it.

I have been doing what Gerard specified all along.

What I am interested is a way to get the system configuration tool to autodetect the card as 3c509 or at least to have the card and driver available when you try selecting the driver from the list.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Maybe e-smith would benefit and fix this in their next blades release!

Serge

[Hex]

I had the same problem with that card. What I did was go to the configuration file. I belive it is under /home/e-smith. It will have a line that says eth0=3c59x. Just change it to eth0=3c509 and then go through the configuration settings on the admin console and say keep 3c509 when it asks for the driver. You may need to make a small change to the configuration when you go through it so that it writes the data out to all the places it needs to go and then reboots. That worked for me hope it helps.