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Xubuntu installer does not detect 3com 3c509 ISA ethernet card

Bug #70507 reported by Joakim Larsson
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Bug Description

Attached is dmesg from the live CD for Xubuntu Dapper release. It does not detect the ethernet card which is an old 3COM 3c509 ISA. Damn Small Linux (DSL) worked out of the box with a 2.4 kernel, see the second attachment.

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Joakim Larsson (joakim-bildrulle) wrote :
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Joakim Larsson (joakim-bildrulle) wrote :
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Joakim Larsson (joakim-bildrulle) wrote :

I have now found out that also support for the on-board sound is missing. Interesting enough both the ethernet card and the on-board sound are detected by isapnp:

[15276.911826] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[15277.075086] isapnp: Card 'On Board Sound CS4237B'
[15277.075106] isapnp: Card '3Com 3C509B EtherLink III'
[15277.075121] isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards detected total

But none are available at application level, Mayby this has todo with these lines:

[15277.217081] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[15277.217179] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8
[15277.217194] EISA: Detected 0 cards.

But the audio is not detected here. Is it a buggy EISA detection causing this?

Should I file another bug for the sound?

At least for the NIC there is driver that should work according to the docs. For the audio I guess the cs4237 is supported by the available Crystal drivers but I am not sure. I found them under PCI however bit that might not matter and loading the NIC driver with insmod did not help either.

An ISA bridge bug maybe?

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JanCeuleers (jan-ceuleers) wrote :

This bug is still present in the Gutsy installer.

Workaround: when the error message comes up saying that no networking hardware has been detected, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 in order to switch to another tty. Press enter to activate it. Enter the command "modprobe 3c509". Verify that the module has indeed been loaded using lsmod.

Switch back to the installer by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1. Ignore the error message and proceed with configuring the network. Worked for me.

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seisen1 (seisen-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Can you please test this in Hardy Heron to see if its still a valid problem?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : This bug is now reported against the 'linux' package

Beginning with the Hardy Heron 8.04 development cycle, all open Ubuntu kernel bugs need to be reported against the "linux" kernel package. We are automatically migrating this linux-source-2.6.15 kernel bug to the new "linux" package. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we make this transition. Also, if you would be interested in testing the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release, it is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . Please let us know your results. Thanks!

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Joakim Larsson (joakim-bildrulle) wrote :

Sorry but I don't have this particular hardware around anymore.

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seisen1 (seisen-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Ok, I will be marking this bug as invalid.

Changed in linux:
status: New → Invalid
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