[TAG] 3C509B Does Not Work With Linux -- Problem Solved!

[Mike Orr]

Chris Gianakopoulos wrote:

> This was my first exposure to plug and play hardware when using Linux. 
> Plug and play was disabled on the 3C509 as recomended in the older 
> days, and the audio hardware was allocated my sacred I/O address.  As 
> I can see /proc has lots of useful stuff, but, this is the first time 
> that I had to use it to troubleshoot a problem.  Cool and fun.
>
> Regards,
> Chris G.


I used to install 3C509B cards at a hospital.  We always disabled plug & 
play and set the base address using the DOS utility on the floppy.  We 
used 0x300 by default, or 0x220 if there was a conflict.