Re: 3c509: broken(verified)

Nicholas Knight
2001-08-06T22:27:33Z

On Monday 06 August 2001 08:54 am, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > i was just using a 3c509 in my friend's old 486 and it was working
> > fine with 2.4.7. Just modprobed it and set up the ips and it was
> > able to ping and be pinged.
>
> Did you use twisted pair or coax (bnc) ?
>
> This problems occurs (at least ) when trying to use TP.
>
> Nico
>
> ps: Alan, do you have an solution ?

For what it's worth, I'm using a 3c509 card on vanilla 2.4.7 right now,
using standard twisted pair patch cable, and it works fine. I've used it
both as a module and compiled in (using compiled in at the moment) on
2.4.5 and 2.4.7, I've also previously used it on 2.4.3, both compiled in
and as a module.

The motherboard is a Soyo K7VIA w/single ISA slot, VIA Apollo Pro KX133
chipset, using an Athlon processor.

The card is connected to a hub and communicates fine with both my other
system and my cable modem, using DHCP.

You mention the problem is being unable to change the media, I was
unaware this was even possible with the current 3c509 driver, and most
people do it on 3c509's and other PNP cards of this sort (such as NE2000
clones) by using a DOS boot diskette and the DOS utilities provided by
the manufacturer.