[vortex] Problems with installing 3Com 3C900 card in Debian Linux

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Hursti Roni wrote:

> I'll try to install 3c59x module in (debian setup) and I give in command
> line like this
> 
> 3c59x options=0 irq=9 io=0x1000 

"irq" and "io" options are only for non-PnP ISA based cards which cannot
be detected automatically. You don't need to specify them for your PCI
card.

> When I'm looking cat /proc/pci it says 
> 
> 	Bus 0, device 14, function 0
> 	3Com 3C900 10b Combo (rev )
> 	IRQ 9. Latency=64
> 	Min Gnt=3. Max Lat=8
> 	I/O at 0x1000

The card is seen on the PCI bus, but...

> cat /proc/ioports
> ...
> cat /proc/interrupts
> ...

... if the driver does not detect it (because of the forced irq and io),
it will not register memory and assign an interrupt, so the results are
normal.

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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