Topic: ISA 3Com 3c509 card?

[Håkan Magnusson]

Does E-Smith 4 work with 3com 3c509 ethernet card or does it only support 3com's PCI card?

/Regards
Hakan

[Charlie Brady]

Håkan Magnusson wrote:

> Does E-Smith 4 work with 3com 3c509 ethernet card or does it
> only support 3com's PCI card?

Officially there is only support for PCI cards. However ISA cards can be made to work - search this bulletin board for ISA and you should find some posts from me including instructions on settings things up to work with ISA NICs
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Best wishes

Charlie

[SR]

Yes, I just did this with a 3c509

look in /lib/.../net  there you will see all the supported network card drivers/modules.

To use one you do...

/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 3c509
cat <>/etc/conf.modules
options eth0 io=0x280
(You will need to use the correct io address for each adaptor)
EOF
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save

check your /etc/conf.modules file and make sure it looks OK
/sbin/telinit 6