In desperate need of inexpensive working Network card!

[John (EBo) David]

Craig White wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of James
> > Carter
> > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:09 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: In desperate need of inexpensive working Network card!
> >
> >
> > I need an Etherlink III ISA 509B 10BaseT NIC. Can someone part
> > with one, or
> > know where to pick one up for fairly cheap in the Southeast valley????
> >
> >
> > Also, why would Redhat 7.1 have a problem with an ISA 509b NIC and a PCI
> > 905b NIC operating in the same machine? I only ask because I can't seem to
> > get the OS to recognize the 905b.

DOH!  I just remembered a *problem* I had a year ago with a similar
configuration...

Check your BIOS setting and make sure that the IRQ setting you have for
ISA card is sellectd for use are dedicated for ISA, ***and*** that it is
turned off in the PCI.  In my BIOS this is actually TWO seperate
actions.  I wasted over 100 hours trying to figure that one out.  I only
found it out by accident...

> Given that RH 7.1 will detect and install proper drivers for almost all PCI
> NIC cards and that you can pick up Linksys cards at Fry's for about $10 and
> $17 for SMC EZ, I think that fooling around with anything else is probably
> foolish.

actually I have to agree.  If they do not work you can bring them back
to FRY's within 30 days for your full money back...  I think they got
anoyed with me after 4 seperate attempts to get a webcam that would work
;-)

> But - if you are determined to make the 509B work - you will have to make
> certain that it is set to an IRQ that isn't already in use, that it is IRQ
> 10 or less (leaving only 3,4,5,7,9,10) and subtract 3 &/or 4 if you have
> modem(s), another serial device, 7 if you have a parellel printer or other
> device, 5, 9 & 10 if you use a sound card - THEN ...
> 
> it should detect the card - if you have more than one in your machine - you
> need to configure them all on on the first card... i.e you have 2 of the
> same cards eth0 & eth1. You have to configure eth0 with the specific IRQ,
> BaseAddr, deviceDriver...values for both NIC's on the same line.
> 
> eth0
> 3COM509XXX
> ip=192.168.1.1,192.168.2.1
> sm=255.255.255.0,255.255.255.0
> IRQ=10,5
> BASE=0x300,0x260
> 
> and leave eth1 blank - except for active - that must be checked.