3c905B-TX conflicts with 0x378 ?

[Georgios Vetoulis]

Hello, I hope this is an appropriate place for my question.
I bought and installed a 3c905B-TX for use with a cable-modem.
This works fine under mswindows. I then tried to use it under linux.
I used the  3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 version of D. Becker's driver and
got the card recognized with a MAC ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. I cold booted the
system and the card was recognized with the correct MAC. I installed
dhcpcd and obtained  a nice connection. So far so good. 
I tried then to print something and got a 
lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
message.

Nothing happened. I tried to insmod ez (for a syquest parallel port
external drive) and got a 
ez: Ports at 0x378 are not available

I repeated the above procedure and verified that right until I do 
insmod 3c59x, I can access via my parallel port both the printer and the
drive. So the ethernet card somehow blocks the parallel port.
The parallel port is at IRQ 7 and the ethernet card is at IRQ 10.

Up to now I am not getting the 3com card detected at boot time. Instead 
I get (from dmesg)
 
Warning : Unknown PCI device (10b7:9055).  Please read include/linux/pci.h 
Warning : Unknown PCI device (1274:5000).  Please read include/linux/pci.h 

I get the card detected when I manually insmod 3c59x after the cold-boot.
Perhaps all I need is to detect the ethernet card at boot time.

Any ideas? Obvious things I am missing? 

Thank you!

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Georgios Vetoulis, Research Associate
Institute for Plasma Research, 
Univ. of Maryland at College Park