Re: problem with Etherlink III and redhat 8

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On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Alex Krumm-Heller wrote:

> I am trying to get a 3com Etherlink III ISA card working with Redhat
> 8. It did not detect it during installation and I don't get a link
> light when pluggin it into a switch. I have added the lines alias eth1
> 3c509 to modules.conf. When trying to bring up the card it gives the
> error:  
> 
> SIOCIFFSFLAGS: Device or resource busy

Does the driver load and detect the card?  You can run 'dmesg' and
'lsmod' to see if the driver is loaded.

> Running the el3 tool identifies the card on io 0x300 and irq 15. I
> don't think these are in conflict with any other card. Does anybody
> have any ideas? 

The 3c509 driver has been modified, so it might be a problem in those
updates.

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