Subject: Re: installing network in SCO Unix
From: Christopher E. Brown (cbrown@woods.net)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 13:10:06 AKST
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Justin Dieters wrote:
> > IIRC though, the 3c509 B and C worked alot better if you used the 3com
> > provided DOS mode util to set the IO addr and IRQ,
>
> Yep, I have three 509's (not sure exactly which models) in my smoothwall
> box. If you just boot up into dos using their util program, and set
> your configuration from there. After you set/verify your irq's and
> everything, the card _should_ go in pretty smoothly.
>
> > At least in 1996, to get the 3c509B/C working with Linux, FreeBSD or
> > SCO you had to use the util to turn PnP off and hard code the IO/IRQ
> > (the PnP IO and IRQ are stored in on card flash).
>
> Also, you may need to turn the 'PnP OS' option in the bios off. I don't
> recall at the moment if this is required for the 509's in *nix, or just
> good practice in general :)
>
> Justin
Good practice in general to set BIOS to PnP OS = NO for *any* SCO,
Linux before 2.2.x, etc. For the 3c509 to work in SCO, or older
FreeBSD and Linux it needs to be in non PnP, otherwise it may or may
not work.
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