[CLUE-Talk] 3C509 ISA ethernet cards?

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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:55:45 -0600 (MDT)
ockers at ockers.net (Jim Ockers) wrote:

> Hi CLUEbies,
> 
> Sorry for the spam.  For various technical reasons we've (my
> employer) learned that we need about 500 3C509 ISA ethernet
> cards.  We need twisted pair (3C509-TPO) transceiver only.
> 
> These cards have been discontinued for 3 years now and are
> not available in the channel.  We'd like to buy new-in-box
> if possible, from someone who bought a big pile of them when
> 3Com discontinued them.
> 
> Why, you ask?
> 
> We need ISA cards with Linux support which provide ETHTOOL_GLINK
> link state reporting, using SIOCETHTOOL ioctl.  (ObLinux)
> 

I donated 20-30 3Com ISA cards to CLUE a couple of years ago. I seem to
remember giving them to Lynn, but I could be mistaken. Does anyone know
where they are?

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> By the way you need to "ifconfig ethx up" to use ethtool 
> to get the link state.  If the interface is down the 3c509 
> driver reports that "link detected: yes".
> 
> The only other ISA ethernet card that is supported in the 
> Linux kernel that provides ETHTOOL_GLINK seems to be is the
> DEC ewrk3 (DIGITAL EtherWORKS 3).  Somehow I doubt that we
> will find very many of those.
> 
> Any advice on where to get 3C509-TPO?  I found one possible 
> place from an ebay listing, everything else I've tried is 
> coming up short.  They are checking to see how many they
> have.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim