On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, it was written:
> I just purchased for my home LAN at a flea market a used 3 Com Etherlink
> III ISA card (I know, it was stupid, but for $7 bucks it was worth trying
> it out). As you guessed, it isn't working. I installed the card on my
> Win95 box, which immediately recognized it as a 3c509B-C card. It
> installed the drivers from the Win95 CD. However, the light on the
> network Hub is off, and when I ping the card's address it doesn't work.
>
> The card has to have some life or Win95 wouldn't have recognized its
> model. Could this be a driver problem, or can I consider the card as dead?
Currently using a 3C509B for my Cable Modem Connection, which has the
curious "feature" of being able to enable/disable the Link Indicator under
Software Control! With all of the other NICs I have used the Link
Indicator comes on as soon as power is applied, therefore may just have a
driver/configuration "problem"? Under Linux I suggest disabling PnP (use
the 3C5X9CFG Utility within 3COM's EtherDisk V6.1). Add "alias eth0
3c509" to /etc/conf.modules the module should detect the IO/IRQ values set
with the 3C5X9CFG Utility (without explicity adding an option line to
/etc/conf.modules)!
[NOTE: Under Linux I found the 3C509 (no B) would drop packets, switching
to the 3C509B solved the problem!]
Lawrence Houston - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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