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Jason Ung wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> I've just bought Redhat 5.0 ... I get my S/B AWE 64pnp to work... as
> well as my 3com 3c509a to work. Howerver now the 3com network card is
> using IRQ3 which is suppose to be for modem..   now I cannot dial
> out..
> I want to move the 3com IRQ to 9. I have try setserial -b /dev/ttyS1
> IRQ 9 setserial -b /dev/cua1 IRQ 9 ....but stll I cannot see anything
> when the modem is connected...
> 
> If someone got any idea I would be appreciated..
> 
> regards,
> 
> Jason Ung

I hate to mention this solution in a Linux group, but...

I have a 3C509 in my Linux test box, and I set the card up using the DOS
configuration utility, 3C5X9CFG.EXE, on the 3Com "EtherDisc" that came
with the card.  There is a batch file on the "EtherDisc" called
PNPDSABL.BAT, which turns Plug-n-Pray off (yes!), then once you've done
that you can manually choose what your I/O port address and your IRQ are
for that card.  I also disabled that p-n-p crap on the modem card in
that box; I've got the modem jumpered for a fixed IRQ and COM port as
well.  Unfortunately, I don't know how to turn off p-n-p on the
SoundBlaster 16 PNP card in there.

You can even boot off a DOS 6.22 bootable disc and then run the programs
on the "EtherDisc".  If you don't have the "EtherDisc", I believe you
should be able to download it or an equivalent from www.3com.com.  Where
you can get a DOS 6.22 bootable disc if you don't have one lying around,
though, I don't know.

Yours WDK - WKiernan@concentric.net

"W. Kiernan" <WKiernan@concentric.net> writes:

> 
> Jason Ung wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone
> > 
> > I've just bought Redhat 5.0 ... I get my S/B AWE 64pnp to work... as
> > well as my 3com 3c509a to work. Howerver now the 3com network card is
> > using IRQ3 which is suppose to be for modem..   now I cannot dial
> > out..
> > I want to move the 3com IRQ to 9. I have try setserial -b /dev/ttyS1
> > IRQ 9 setserial -b /dev/cua1 IRQ 9 ....but stll I cannot see anything
> > when the modem is connected...
> > 
> > If someone got any idea I would be appreciated..
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Jason Ung
> 
> I hate to mention this solution in a Linux group, but...
> 
> I have a 3C509 in my Linux test box, and I set the card up using the DOS
> configuration utility, 3C5X9CFG.EXE, on the 3Com "EtherDisc" that came
> with the card.  There is a batch file on the "EtherDisc" called
> PNPDSABL.BAT, which turns Plug-n-Pray off (yes!), then once you've done
> that you can manually choose what your I/O port address and your IRQ are
> for that card.  I also disabled that p-n-p crap on the modem card in
> that box; I've got the modem jumpered for a fixed IRQ and COM port as
> well.  Unfortunately, I don't know how to turn off p-n-p on the
> SoundBlaster 16 PNP card in there.
> 
> You can even boot off a DOS 6.22 bootable disc and then run the programs
> on the "EtherDisc".  If you don't have the "EtherDisc", I believe you
> should be able to download it or an equivalent from www.3com.com.  Where
> you can get a DOS 6.22 bootable disc if you don't have one lying around,
> though, I don't know.
> 


You can't turn PNP off on the SBs. Even if you turn it off on the 3com
card, if you have another PNP card in the machine, the 3com card needs
to be initialized.  What you guys need is isapnptools (there's a link
to it off Redhat's site).  It has a program, pnpdump, which generates
a list of all possible resources that can be used by PNP
cards. Uncomment the ones you want. On boot, the program reads the
file and intializes the card before modules, etc. are loaded. No dos
boot needed.

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