On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:40 PM, michael block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > i have 3com etherlink iii 509b isa card that refuses to let me change > its port or irq. also the only way i can get the card to talk on the > network is to put my usb mouse on the same irq and wiggle it around > really fast when i'm trying to receive or transmit. initially i could > change neither the irq of the usb mouse nor of the ethernet card. i > have turned off pnp in my bios and i can now move the irq of the usb > mouse. however, without the wiggling mouse sharing its irq, the > ethernet card with not work. > > from what i can tell by gleaning the 9fans archives, the 3c509b is > quite a troublesome card. i found rumors of a dos utility that would
I remember this card. The port number and irq was setup by small DOS program provided by 3COM in drivers/utilities package. Did you find drivers for this card on 3COM site? Antonin > convince the card to change its port and irq. i think this leaves me > with two questions. first, where do i find this fabled configuration > program? googling has proved fruitless. second, is fiddling with the > port or irq even going to fix the problem? as far as i understand, if > the card has its own irq staked out, it should just go on its way > > here is what is printed on startup: > #l0; elnk3: 10Mbps port 0x300 irq 10: <ethaddr> > #U/usb0: uhci: port 0xEF80 irq 12 > > #U/usb0 was initially at irq 10, but after disabling pnp in bios, i > was able to move it to 12 > > -- m > > ps, i have a very limited understanding of what an isa card's port and > irq even do. if i said anything that doesn't quite add up, that's > probably why > >
