3Com EtherLink III ISA (3C509b-TP) network problem

[s.roman]

as a side note, for some reason I can't open my second hard drive when
I try to through /dev/hdb, even though I see it in device manager and
that's where it tells me its location. I can't even open hda in /dev/.
There's only Filesystem and the cdroms and floppy in "Computer". How
would I ba able to access it? It's formatted with FAT32 I think, and
all it has on it are some mp3's. It was installed prior to Ubuntu's
installation.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:13:19 -0500, s.roman <s.roman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically my Ubuntu box doesn't want to recognize its 3Com EtherLink
> III (3) ISA (3C509b-TP) NIC. I looked around the internet for similar
> problems, and it seems most people with this card have been able to
> resolve their network connections by adding the module 3c509 and doing
> some other things like disabling PnP for ISA.
> 
> Now since I'm a linux newbie I don't know many of my options. I tried
> doing sudo modprobe 3c509 and that actually made the Link/ACT light on
> my SMC router turn on, but not the Speed light, and the computer still
> didn't detect any ethernet card. I tried setting up a network
> connection in network settings after doing that, but that didn't do
> much either. After I reboot the module 3c509 disappears from the
> module list, and the Link light turns off on my router. I've tried
> disabling "Plug and Play OS" in my bios as well, but that didn't help.
> I've seen some drivers' sources for this card for linux, but I'm not
> sure how to compile or execute them. I'm pretty sure the ISA bridge is
> detected though since it shows up when I execute lspci.
> 
> SiS 530 super7 is the chipset and the motherboard model is PC Chips
> M598, I think. The ethernet card works well in Windows. Anyone have
> any suggestions on what I should do next?
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman
>