[svlug] RedHad can't see Ethernet card

[Ben Spade]

Oh Goody - you're awake!

In some detail, we first installed 4.2 last week, even got X working,
but no ethernet. I fooled around with it for a while, and finally got
it to work ( going through RH's graphical sysadmin tool), and so we
rebooted 'just to make sure'. Well, it hasn't worked since.

Reading about the 3c509 in the Documentation directory, and in the
driver source, I learned that probing doesn't usually work (it did once!),
so we tried 'modprobe 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10', (no luck), and putting
the same info in /etc/conf.modules so kerneld could get to it (still no luck).

So, last night, we created a custom kernel, with the 3c509 driver
compiled in, but it still can't see the device. Since the computer lives in
a house that is T1 connected, with 10BaseT to the bedrooms, ethernet
is pretty important, and it is unlikely that kerneld would ever get an
opportunity to unload the driver, so building it in seemed like a 
good thing anyway - but it still doesn't work! Bah Humbug!

I will try any suggestions tonight (I carted the computer home with me
last night), so thanks in advance

	Ben
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                    Ben Spade
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