3c509b on Noname with RedHat 6.1

["D. Jezzer" <djezzer hotmail com>]

Hi,

I have recently put my DEC Alpha up and running with RedHat 6.1 (Cartman). 
After some playing around I decided I need to have networking facilities and 
I installed a ISA 3com 3c509b NIC. The thing is configured as non-pnp, coax, 
irq10, base adress 0x300h.

I have also tried to get it running on base adress 0x360h and "auto"detect, 
on various combinations.

When I boot the Alpha, it reaches runlevel 3, brings up interface lo [OK] 
and starts bringing up eth0.... but never ends bringing it up.

It seems to me that the machine is waiting for something instead of just 
hanging dead, because when I cold-reset it a forced check of partion things 
starts.

I tried to install the nic with linuxconf, the correct module is inserted. I 
also tried "insmod 3c509" but with no results.
Pinging localhost works.
Pinging another ip-adress on my network gives the message "network 
unreachable".

What I consider as rather strange is that the nic works just fine on a intel 
platform running suse-linux.

My question: How to get the 3com 3c509b running on my DEC Alpha? Please give 
some detailed information, I will put the results on my knowledge base site.

TIA, dJezzer
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