Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 51999
3c509 network card module broken in kernel
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:51 EDT
Description of Problem: 3c509 network card installs, but does not work with 2.4.x kernel Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.1 How Reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 7.1 2. 3c509 network card is recognized and installed 3. Ethernet TCP/IP networking will not work 4. I installed 7.1 with 2.4.x kernel, then installed 2.2.x kernel from RH 7.0, booted from older kernal using LILO, TCP/IP worked just fine. 5. ****Please don't blow this off as the previously reported problem with 3c509, because it is not. I have Plug n' Play turned off for the card and in BIOS, etc. This is a kernel problem that should be fixed. Even though the 3c509 is an older ISA card, there are a bunch of them in use.**** Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
I am also having this problem. Pnp is turned off on the card. I upgraded from a working version of RedHat 7.0 RedHat 7.1, now my network card no longer works. I also have a server with two 3c509 cards in it that I want upgrade to RedHat 7.1. Please advise on any workarounds ASAP.
I think this problem may relate to the order in which modules are loaded. When I put the 3c509 back into the system and get modules.conf to load it and then do a cat /proc/interrupts I notice that other cards get IRQ 12 assigned to them. This is the IRQ that I manually assigned to the 3c509 and worked fine with RedHat 7.0. My guess is that there are some changes in the way that isapnp loads and grabs IRQ for each module. It seems that the non-PNP cards are loaded last. I will attempt to convert my RH6.2 system to RH7.1 since their are no PNP cards in that machine and two 3c509 cards.
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