Topic: ISA NIC CARD HELP ( 3com 509 )

[Daryll Griffiths]

Hi All,

Unlike some I have little money, little knowledge of linux and only enough nic's for my LAN.

Here's the setup. The 2 nic's being put into my e-smith box are a pci working compaq ( intel chip ) card and the 3com ISA. I note that ISA cards are not supported but some users have reported them as working ok. The ISA card is the one registered with my isp and must be used for the external nic ( Ethernet2 [ eth1 ] ).

Using info i have found I done the following.

1.Using the 3com dos utility, I noted the IRQ assigned to the card ( 10 ) and IO ( 300h ). I also disabled plug and play.

2. I editied modules.conf in /etc to have :

alias eth0 [driver]
alias eth1 3c509
options eth1 io=0x300h

The e-smith configuration file has also been modified for EthernetDriver2 to be 3c509.

The Problem is that it refuses to connect to the internet and from the instructions I have read I see no reason for this.

I also get the following error on reboot or shutdown when shutting down services etc

eth0 is successful, but i get the following for eth1 :

"insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/3c509.o insmod eth1 failed"

Can anyone help ????

I've found drivers at http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html but wouldn't know what to do with them ?

Cheers,

Daryll

[Stephan Burmeister]

Try

   options eth1 io=0x300 irq=10

in /etc/modules.conf.

Regards

Stephan

[Daryll Griffiths]

cheers,

found a good site @ http://home.planet.nl/~speel235/esmith.html which has a section on ISA nics which mentioned the that.

Was going to try it tommorow ! Need to go and sleep now, up early for work ( UK ). Will let you know how i get on tommorow.

Cheers,

Daryll.

[Marco Broeken]

insmod 3c905

this will help

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

[Gerard]

read this :
http://www.e-smith.org/bboard/read.php?f=1$i=7908$t=7910

regards,
Gerard

[Daryll Griffiths]

That link just goes to general discussion for me.

[Daryll Griffiths]

OK.

The nic is now working. But for it to access the internet, by a command line using root i need to issue insmod 3c509 and then when i do a restart it brings it up ok. If I just go straight to a restart it tells me something about the device not being accessible ( i think that was it ).

Can I just put this line in somewhere for it to do it automatically ?

Cheers,

Daryll.Marco Broeken wrote:
>
> insmod 3c905
>
> this will help
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

[Daryll Griffiths]

Daryll Griffiths wrote:
> straight to a restart it tells me something about the device
> not being accessible ( i think that was it ).

The exact error message after network restart is :

"Bringing up interface eth1: Delaying eth1 initialization. [FAILED]"

if after this I issue :

insmod 3c509

and then restart, it comes up ok ????

Cheers,

Daryll.

[Daryll Griffiths]

Can anyone help ?