Hello could any one help me with a Networking problem. I have RH 7.1 with 2 3c509 NIC's installed. They both worked fine under W98. But I can't get Linux to detect them. I have been told I need a Linux/3com driver, which I have got hold of. However it needs to be compiled. I tried to do this but failed. My question is could I install another version of Linux eg Mandrake/Susie that perhaps would detect the NICs and save me the trouble of all this "C" stuff. So if anybody is running a version of Linux and using 3c509's could you let me know. Thanks for reading this Michael Ford

I have a 3c509 ISA running under RH 7.1, and I never compiled a driver for it. Have a look at this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/11255 I think that will solve your problem. -Ozzy

as I know, with mandrake you should not have any problem since I have the same card and it works fine , even it recoginze it alone lone

I had the similar problem with one of my computers. After lots of diff. methods, I found I had two kernel in my boot directory. I removed the correct one and my nic card came back.

I experienced a problem using two of the same types of NICs in Linux. Seems under some kernels, 2.4.2 and higher, the kernel "sees" the same type of NIC (i.e. two 3C509's) as one logical address even though there are two physical cards in the machine. This drove me crazy when I was trying to set up my linux router/firewall system. I resolved the issue by using two different types of NICs - 1 3C509 and one Realtek (RLT). I set them up as eth0 and eth1 using linuxconf (redhat/mandrake) and things worked ok. Might not solve your problem - but it is more of a workaround. BTW - are you trying to set up a server/firewall/router type config? If so - I can help.. been there - done that -- long nights to get it working - but once it's configured - you don't have to do anything more...wonderful - up for 2 months straight now on a DSL to local net - works like a dream... Let me know if this helps The Wooky.

you cant use the pnp if you want to run 2 NIC's on linux for exampel using the machine to spare 1 adsl connection! download the configurationtools from 3com and force irq and io on both card and use the module 3c509 from the kernel, it will work.. i can allmost garante it