From: us244953@emi.3m.com (Joseph Hoss) Subject: 3c509 (aka Etherlink III) and NET-2 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 22:32:36 GMT
I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting Linux (SLS distribution) to
work with a 3com 3c509 (combo, for what its worth). I think that I have
uncommented the appropriate lines in CONFIG and modified the Makefile to
include el3.o (after copying the 3c509.c file to el3.o). The new kernel seems
to find the card on bootup (it spews some lines starting with eliii, which do
list the right IRQ and I/O address). However, the line in rc.net
ifconfig eth0 130.99.34.55 ...
gacks and spews some errors along the lines of
SIOCSIFADDR invalid argument,
SIOCGIFFLAGS invalid argument
etc.
It apparently doesn't like the eth0 device. The file /dev/eth0 is linked to
/dev/wd0. Is this right for the 3c509? The link was created by the
installation.
The ifconfig command for lo don't complain. The route add 130.99.24.0 command
complains with a Network cannot be reached error.
Any hints/ideas would be appreciated.
Joe Hoss
us244953@emi.3m.com
Joseph Hoss
3M Company
EIS/IT