Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 May 2005 17:37:36 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: 3c509 module and 2.6 kernel: not all NICs are recognized? |
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Michael Tokarev wrote: > A bit more information. > > Michael Tokarev wrote: > >>Finally, I tried to boot our gateway machine into 2.6 (2.6.11.8 >>to be certain) kernel. The machine is quite old, it's 100MHz >>Pentium-classic, yet it works as a router just fine. >> >>And surprizingly, this is the first machine I tried to upgrade >>to 2.6 which does not work. >> >>It have 4 3c509 cards, one EISA and 3 ISA. Here's the dmesg >>output when I load 3c509 module on 2.4 kernel: >> >>eth0: 3c5x9 at 0x2000, 10baseT port, address 00 60 08 4b 31 bf, IRQ 15. >>3c509.c:1.19 16Oct2002 becker@scyld.com >>http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html >>eth1: 3c5x9 at 0x3000, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 92 f6 ef, IRQ 7. >>3c509.c:1.19 16Oct2002 becker@scyld.com >>http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html >>eth2: 3c5x9 at 0x4000, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 92 83 02, IRQ 5. >>3c509.c:1.19 16Oct2002 becker@scyld.com >>http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html >>eth3: 3c5x9 at 0x5000, BNC port, address 00 20 af 99 f2 ac, IRQ 12. >>3c509.c:1.19 16Oct2002 becker@scyld.com >>http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html >> >>(the last one, with IRQ#12 and BNC port, is EISA). > > > All the ISA cards are in EISA mode (set in 3c5x9cfg.exe utility). > IRQs are assigned by the EISA bus (set by EISA configuration utility). > If any of the ISA cards are in non-EISA mode, the some of them > does not work at all, starting from EISA BIOS config during boot. > So I can't switch the cards into PNP mode. > > Also, I tried setting the cards manually with 3c509 module > parameters. The only parameter one can tweak is irq=, > but it seems the parameter is ignored -- I tried > modprobe 3c509 irq=15,7,5,12 > but it still detects only the EISA card with irq=12, just > like without irq= line at all. > >
what does dmesg|grep EISA show?
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