drivers for an old network card
Georgina
gena at gena-j.net
Sat Mar 16 17:39:34 EST 2002
Hi
I did a search on google for "Etherlink 3 configuration linux" and got this
page: Chances are that you have the necessary driver already.
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Product: 3Com 3C509 Etherlink-3 ISA NIC
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Manufacturer: 3Com
Model: 3C509
Category: Network Interface Card
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Street Price: 0
Dates Manuf.: 0000-00-00 to 0000-00-00
Record History: created 1999-05-04. Last modified 2001-08-10
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# Driver Description
0 3c509.c : 3Com NIC driver This driver is for the 3Com EtherLinkIII
series.
Resources
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# Resource Type Description
0 Configuring an Ethernet Interface Linux HOWTO
Walks through securing support for a NIC and establishing the eth
interfac...
1 DNS HOWTO Linux HOWTO
How to become a totally 'small time' DNS admi...
2 How to hook up PPP in Linux Linux HOWTO
The key problem in hooking up a PPP link to an Internet Service
Provider (ISP) is that the ISP's seem to compete with each other as to
who can find another obscure way of authenticating users. Thus we have
login, PAP, CHAP 05, CHAP80, CHAP80-lanman, CHAP81, ... and
combinations of these. The chief difficulty of connecting to an ISP is
discovering which technique is actually being used by the ISP in an
orderly way. Since few of them know anything about Linux, and since
few of them even understand what technique they actually use, this
procedure should allow you to set up without their help, or to
understand what their help means if it is given...
3 Linux Ethernet HOWTO Linux HOWTO
Information about which ethernet devices can be used for Linux, and
how to set them up (focused on he hardware and low level driver aspect
of the ethernet cards; see Network HOWTO for software configuration
information)...
4 Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO Linux HOWTO
Lists most of the hardware supported by Linux and helps you locate any
necessary drivers...
5 Linux Networking HOWTO Linux HOWTO
Information about networking for Linux (relates only to version 4 of
the Linux Networking Kernel or more specifically kernel releases 2.x
and 2.2.x)...
6 Linux Networking HOWTO (Previously the Net-3 How... Linux HOWTO
Describes how to install and configure the Linux networking software
and associated tools...
7 Linux PPP HOWTO Linux HOWTO
How to connect your Linux PC to a PPP server, how to use PPP to link
two LANs together; provides one method of setting up your Linux
computer as a PPP server...
8 The Linux Plug-and-Play HOWTO Linux HOWTO
How to get your Linux system to support Plug-and-Play© ...
9 Wireless LAN Resources for Linux Linux Specific Website
A nice central clearinghouse of information about the various wireless
networking cards available, how well they support standards and how
well they work or don't work with Linu...
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1. No problems posted by dougm on 1999-05-19
5.0
Review: Never had a problem with Linux or any other OS... One of the
higher end NICs out there.
2. Decent enough card posted by meeko on 1999-07-06
4.0
Review: My TPO card worked perfectly for me right from the start, in
both Win9x and Linux. I forget if I disabled PnP, but I don't think I
did. It's CPU utilization is fairly high, but you expect that from an
ISA card. It has no problems talking to m...(more)
3. Untitled posted by js1 on 1999-07-09
5.0
Review: NULL
4. A breeze in Linux posted by ilmari on 1999-08-15
4.0
Review: Windows 95 wouldn't even give it an IRQ, but in linux it was
true plug and play! a pleasure!!
5. Good card posted by djmcelroy on 2000-05-31
4.0
Review: Works great - easy to install. Unlike the 3c509b, there is
no PNP feature to disable. You should be able to find these cards in
the used bin for little money.
6. Untitled posted by anonymous on 2000-06-17
Comment: Works well. It's PnP even in Linux. I can't figure out how
to force it to take a different base port/irq tho.
7. Just works posted by alan on 2000-07-29
5.0
Review: It just works. Its the ideal ISA card
8. Great for an ISA card posted by broberts on 2000-08-19
4.0
Review: Works for me. I don't like the lack of jumpers though. If
you need to change the setup, grab 3c5x9utils.
9. true classic posted by fuggles on 2000-12-04
5.0
Review: A true classic, these are cheap and wonderful.
10. Untitled posted by SYKO on 2001-08-10
0.0
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Gena
>Hi Alex,
>
> You'll need to know the exact model of the card. I have an Etherlink II
I that is a 3C509b (not sure if the Etherlink III includes other models or not)
.
>
> Go to the 3Com website and find the setup program for your card. You ha
ve to run this utility programin DOS (just boot froma floppy, then insert the d
iskette with the utility program on it and run it from the floppy). This progra
m lets you set IRQ and IOBase address. Set them and save them to the card. Then
reboot Linux and set up the driver which you can compile into your kernel, or
load as a module. Specify the IRQ and IOBase as per the instructions for module
s (or on the lilo prompt if you compile the driver into the kernel).
>
>HTH,
> --terry
>
>You wrote:
>
>-=> Hi.
>-=> I got an isa 3com eathernet card, Think it's an eatherlink3. Ware can I g
et linux drivers for it? The card was made around 1992 so I think there might
be something someware.
>
>
>Name: Terry D. Cudney
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