I'm not new to Linux by any means, and I've read my eyes raw looking for ways in which to get my 3c509b ISA PnP ethernet card to work under Linux.
I have installed many of these same cards on our Linux boxes at work with no problem, however this one is a doozy. These are the ways in which I've configured it so far: PnP enabled, driver built into the 2.0.30 kernel, reserve= and/or ether= commands at the Lilo boot prompt. PnP disabled, driver built into the 2.0.30 kernel, reserve= and/or ether= commands at the Lilo boot prompt. PnP enabled, driver built as a module for the 2.0.30 kernel, io= and/or irq= commands at the insmod command line and in conf.modules. PnP disabled, driver built as a module for the 2.0.30 kernel, io= and/or irq= commands at the insmod command line and in conf.modules. The card works under Win95 in both PnP and non-PnP modes. The card is configured for I/O base 0x300, and IRQ 10 (both free and clear so no conflicts.. looking in /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports confirms this). IO 0x300 and IRQ 10 are pretty standard so I don't forsee any problems there. Thinking that my cheap Reveal Ensoniq Soundscape ripoff may be the culprit I yanked it from the system and tried the above methods again with NO success. Here's the kicker.. brace yourselves.... When I have run the el3-diag and 3c5x9 diagnostic/configuration programs under Linux (also written by Becker, the god of ethernet) they find the card just fine AND they confirm that my settings are indeed as listed above. When attempting to 'insmod 3c509' (with AND without the io= and irq= options) I get this message: init_module: Device or resource busy. But it can't be because NOTHING is using it!!!! And just in case you're wondering what my setup is: 5x86 133MHZ AMD 32M Ram (SIMMs) Cirrus Logic GD5426 SVGA Zoom 28.8 V.34i Fax/Modem CMD EIDE VLB Dual Port IDE controller Maxtor 7G EIDE drive (Diamond Series) Torisan 16x IDE/ATAPI CDROM Some intrinsics: 3 Serial ports all registered at the appropriate places: 3f8, 2f8, 3e8 (IRQ's 4,3,4 respectively) IDE controller using IRQ 14,15 and IO base 0x1F0 AMI BIOS REV July 1994 NO PnP BIOS NO PCI BIOS 1 LPT port at 378 as usual. I challenge anyone to step up and take a swing at this. Lord knows I've given it my absolute best shot. The only thing I could hope for is that someone could tell me how to hard code the 3c509 driver to force initialization at my specified IO/IRQ settings, or convince Becker to release manually editable 3c509.c source code. I'm all out of answers here. Anyone with something to try please don't hesitate to send it my way. Who knows, it may go a long way in helping alot of other people with the same problem. One other thing: I have been thinking that perhaps the "Device or resource busy." message might not be a result of the driver, but something else in the kernel, or something misconfigured on the system (the usual suspects IE: permissions, a missing dev, etc...) but I know I'm reaching. I am running Debian 1.3.1 "Official" released by LSL. It's a stock install with no modifications other than a standard kernel compile after install. Lots of luck gentlemen. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
