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Re: 3COM 3c509B not recognized ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mister Linux)
Sun Dec 3 16:40:13 1995
To: urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "30 Nov 1995 07:35:17 +0100."
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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 17:25:25 +0100
From: Mister Linux <linux@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
> I have here a 3com EtherLink III 3c509B card which isn't recognized by =
the
> driver. Any ideas? =
> =
Yes!
1. Turn of all plug&pray support in your BIOS setup
2. Use the - hopefully - supplied DOS utils to setup your card.
3. Reboot linux and voila ...
The problem with plug&pray is that the BIOS will disable _ALL_ PnP-aware
Cards not needed for booting the system. In case of the 3c509B this will
cause the card to return invalid or no values when attempting to read
the eeprom.
Maybe we should convince 3COM to ship a Linux-based configuration utility=
with their card as well ? ;-)
Cheers,
Dominik
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