[RULE] How do I get the kernel installed???

[King_Henree@yahoo.com]

I finally got my 3Com 3c509b and 3c509tp cards
working.  It turns out they were both set to use the
same io address.  I had to use an old DOS utility--
3Com EtherDisk v. 2.0-- that I miraculously found
while I was looking for some other stuff.  I
understand there are also newer EtherDisk tools
(http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp?selected=5&sku=3C509B-TPC&sort=effdt&order=desc
or for linux @ http://sycld.com) that will do the same
thing.  With that utility I simply booted into DOS and
ran the program which enabled me to autoconfigure the
io address in use and make sure pnp was disabled.

Now everything works properly with the 3c509.o driver
under RedHat 9.  Well, since I have 2 NIC cards I had
to set aliases in /etc/modules.conf

# /etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 3c509
alias eth1 3c509

Hope this helps anyone else searching through the
archives who may ever have this problem.

Thanks.

--- Michael Fratoni <mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net>
wrote:
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> On Thursday 14 August 2003 02:19 am,
> king_henree at yahoo.com wrote:
> > This system is an Intel 486.  The FTP seems to be
> > working, but now I have run into another problem. 
> I
> > keep getting the following error:
> >
> > eth0: infinite loop in interrupt, status 2001
> >
> > I have a 3Com 3c509tp card using EISA that uses
> the
> > 3c509.o module.  I have searched to see if anyone
> else
> > has experienced this problem and the only thing
> that
> > may be relevant is that isapnp support is enabled
> in
> > the kernel which may cause an error like this. 
> How is
> > the kernel for installation configured?  The
> following
> > link suggests it should be set like:
> >
> >
>
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2001/Feb/4305.html
> >
> > #
> > # Plug and Play configuration
> > #
> > CONFIG_PNP=y
> > # CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set
> >
> > Although, when that link was written kernel 2.4.1
> was
> > the kernel with the problem, it still may be
> relevant.
> >  Are there any suggestions as to how to fix this?
> 
> I've no idea what is causing the error above. If you
> have another network 
> card available, can you try switching it out? The
> installer kernel is 
> configured as above:
> 
> [mfratoni at paradox slinky]$ grep -i isapnp
> kernel.config
> # CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ISAPNP is not set
> 
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> pgp key: 
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
> Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM:
> http://www.rule-project.org/en/
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