Hi. I will try and make this as brief as possible while trying to explain
everything I have tried.
Simply put, I cannot get my 3Com Etherlink III (3C509B) to work with
Debian Linux 1.3.1 kernel 2.0.29. (i486DX4 VLB w/16MB)
Before I go on I should add that I have not used this in any other machi
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> 1. Try to disable the boot prom.
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How do I do this? I have gone through the 3Com disk and didn't see
anything like this.
> 2. Your transciever type must be BNC if your using coax cabling, RJ-45 if
> you are using UTP cables.
I have the 3c509B-TPO, so I only have the UTP input.
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> c
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> Here, no problems with a 3C509B. I disabled pnp and set the irq to 5
> (for arbitrary reasons.)
> What do you get from `cat /proc/{interrupts,io}` ?
I have tried different irq's and addresses and all of them have been clear
of anything in cat /proc/interrupts & ioports. I am now going to rem
> OK, have you set the IRQ you set on the card, as legacy ISA in your BIOS, as
> opposed to a PNP device? If you have auto config turned on, shut it off and
> set
> this manually. Plug and Pray is not a joke reference to PnP.
I have an American Megatrends BIOS circa 1994 with no PNP support!
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> finally I have now Debian installed after putting a simple "/" to the
> question were is my top level located. Now I wonder why the X-Server
> doesn't run (3D Virge) although I installed the particiular server, just
> it runs in vga16 mode. How can I configure X? (xconfig or make xconfig
> doe
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