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Re: 3Com ethernet card not being detected
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Jun 10 01:31:41 1996
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 23:11:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Srinivas Thirunagari <srinivas@amexco.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9606100058.AA03349@amexco.com>
On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Srinivas Thirunagari wrote:
> We have installed 3Com 3C509B EtherLink III on Pentium 100 running
> Linux (Slackware) . It seems that the kernel is not detecting
> the ehternet card.
>
> Jun 10 08:08:20 cslinux kernel: eth0: ewrk3_probe(): Detected a device already registered at 0x3c0
> Jun 10 08:08:20 cslinux kernel: eth0: D-Link DE-600 pocket adapter: not at I/O 0x378.
> Jun 10 08:08:20 cslinux kernel: D-Link DE-620 pocket adapter not identified in the printer port
Looks like you're using a Slackware "kitchen sink" kernel...and the wrong
one. Do yourself a favor and compile a kernel with only the drivers you
need. You also might need/want to disable PnP mode on the 3c509
depending on which kernel version (actually 3c509.c version) you end up with.
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