Add hardware later?

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	There is a dos utility on the driver disk 3c5x9cfg.  It will take
care of all the configuration needed for this card.  It is downloadable
with the drivers.  You can specify which ENET card by its address and
where you would like to put it - in terms of irq and memory.  The 3c509
card is very good when it comes to configuration.

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:

> David Kramer wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Kuan Lee wrote:
> > 
> > > Pausing before the last shore of time, David Kramer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm putting together a 486-dx2 100mhz computer with Red Hat 6.2.  I
> > > > finally got everything working, but originally I could not get the network
> > > > card working.  Now I put the network card back in, and I would like to
> > > > know how to tell the system to load the driver for it.
> > <YADAYADA>        </YADAYADA>
> > > I have one of those from 8 years ago =)
> > > if you compile support into the kernel,
> > > it autoprobes a range of addresses including 0x300 for NIC, and
> > > do not need to do anything else.
> > > If you want to load it as a module, there was another message on
> > > how to do that.
> > 
> > So this was a good learning experience for me.  Here is what I had to do.
> > 
> > Based on searching Red Hat's knowledgebase, I figured out I needed to put
> > 2 lines in /etc/conf.modules. An "options" line to define the IRQ and IO
> > address, and an "alias" line to set ne2000 the driver to
> > eth0.  Apparently, the default address of 0x300 is very hard to autoprobe,
> > so it needs to be specified.
> 
> Interesting thread.  I just ran into the same problem.
> 
> Every Linux installation I've done to date has autodetected the card(s)
> I want to use.  If not, recompiling the kernel to include the driver has
> done the trick.  Except on the machine I'm trying to set up right now...
> 
> Here's my question: how do you know what IRQ and interupt to specify for
> your card?  The Net3-4 HOWTO tells me that my card's manufacturer
> probably sent me a DOS disk that lets me configure my card.  I don't
> have that.  The card I have is a good old 3COM 509.  3COM's site has no
> configuration utilities for the card that I could find either.
> 
> I'm actually trying to put *two* 509's in this machine, if that makes
> any difference (even just one card doesn't work right now, though).
> 
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> Ron Peterson
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