Re: 3c509 module and 2.6 kernel: not all NICs are recognized?

[Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>]

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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				Brian Gerst