[oclug] Disappearing NICs: Some progress

[Johnathan Hicks]

Maybe the following would work? (I've not tested it)

options eth0 irq=10
options eth1 irq=11

I bave a 3c509B as well, and it works quite nicely. :) <WARNING>Except
for the time I attempted to use ISAPNP with it, it insisted on taking
some of the resources that my SB16 is jumpered to and I could not force
it to keep off even with kernel parameters that should have done the
job... :( </WARNING>

I hope this helps you out. :)

--John

Brian Barber wrote:
> 
> I did some research and found that the 3c509 does not like "io=..." in
> conf.modules.  I removed that statement so that it now reads:
> 
> alias eth0 3c509
> alias eth1 3c509
> options 3c509 irq=10,11
> 
> Now eth0 comes up, but eth1 does not.  Is there anyone out there that can
> point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> BB
> 
> BTW, PnP is disabled. eth0 is set to io=0x300 and irq=10 and eth1 is
> io=0x320 and irq=11.  I checked /proc/interrupts and /proc/io for conflicts
> and found none.
> 
> >From: "Brian Barber" <brianjbarber at hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
> >To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
> >Subject: [oclug] Disappearing NICs
> >Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:10:49 -0500
> >
> >I have a RH 6.0 box with 3c509b NICs (eth0 and eth1).  Everything was
> >working fine until I had to shutdown and restart the machine.  Once linux
> >came up, lo initialized, but eth0 and eth1 failed to initialize (thus DHCP
> >and DNS didn't either).  When I tried to manually bring them up (ifconfig
> >eth0 up) I got a "no such device"(sic) error.  I have never had a problem
> >with 3com cards under other OSs or with other ISA cards under linux, but
> >this is the second time this has happened to me in linux with 3com cards
> >(once with 3c509 and now with 3c509b).  I switched to ne2000 cards and only
> >edited the conf.modules file to use ne.o) and it works.  I figure it must
> >not be the hardware, but what would make these once functioning NICs
> >disappear?
> >
> >What gives?  Is there a newer 3c509.o out there?
> >
> >BB
> >
> >Current system:
> >Dell Dimension 466V
> >486DX2-66 32MB
> >#9 GXE VL
> >3c509b ISA (2) (io=0x300,0x320 irq=10,11)
> >RH 6.0
> >DHCP
> >DNS
> >IPChains
> >Apache
> >
> >Also happened with a no name P100 clone
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