3c905B-TX conflicts with 0x378 ?

[David Lang]

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David Lang


On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Georgios Vetoulis wrote:

> 
> Hello, I hope this is an appropriate place for my question.
> I bought and installed a 3c905B-TX for use with a cable-modem.
> This works fine under mswindows. I then tried to use it under linux.
> I used the  3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 version of D. Becker's driver and
> got the card recognized with a MAC ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. I cold booted the
> system and the card was recognized with the correct MAC. I installed
> dhcpcd and obtained  a nice connection. So far so good. 
> I tried then to print something and got a 
> lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
> message.
> 
> Nothing happened. I tried to insmod ez (for a syquest parallel port
> external drive) and got a 
> ez: Ports at 0x378 are not available
> 
> I repeated the above procedure and verified that right until I do 
> insmod 3c59x, I can access via my parallel port both the printer and the
> drive. So the ethernet card somehow blocks the parallel port.
> The parallel port is at IRQ 7 and the ethernet card is at IRQ 10.
> 
> Up to now I am not getting the 3com card detected at boot time. Instead 
> I get (from dmesg)
>  
> Warning : Unknown PCI device (10b7:9055).  Please read include/linux/pci.h 
> Warning : Unknown PCI device (1274:5000).  Please read include/linux/pci.h 
> 
> I get the card detected when I manually insmod 3c59x after the cold-boot.
> Perhaps all I need is to detect the ethernet card at boot time.
> 
> Any ideas? Obvious things I am missing? 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> --
> Georgios Vetoulis, Research Associate
> Institute for Plasma Research, 
> Univ. of Maryland at College Park
> 
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> 
> 
> 

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