From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:06:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4cc0a7f3640087bdea8149747a509265@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <3df301650808291040rd98b5baoded505fbf3f5e4a5@mail.gmail.com> References: <3df301650808291040rd98b5baoded505fbf3f5e4a5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 3c509b troubles Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0aa06608-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > have 3com etherlink iii 509b isa card that refuses to let me change > its port or irq. also the only way i can get the card to talk on the > network is to put my usb mouse on the same irq and wiggle it around > really fast when i'm trying to receive or transmit. initially i could > change neither the irq of the usb mouse nor of the ethernet card. i > have turned off pnp in my bios and i can now move the irq of the usb > mouse. however, without the wiggling mouse sharing its irq, the > ethernet card with not work. maybe this is an isa-specific problem that i refuse to remember, but i think the answer is that rather than changing the irq (i believe this is determed by hard-wiring for the isa bus --- if memory serves), you inform the kernel what the irq is. plan9.ini(8) has more information but i think you wish ether0=type=3C509 irq=12 in your plan9.ini. - erik