tx/rx woes

[Allen B. Cummings]

  I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I've recently
encountered...

First a little background:

  I was running Slackware 3.4 with kernel version 2.0.33. I've got a
vortex card (3c590) and had all of the usual networking stuff configured
and everything was running correctly. (consequently, I've had this card 
working since I first installed Slackware 3.0, upgrading pretty much as 
soon as new kernels or versions of Slackware came out -- never had a 
problem)

  Last weekend, I got my Linux Developer's Resource subscription and decided
to upgrade to Slackware 3.5. (kernel version 2.0.34) When I set up all the 
networking stuff and loaded the 3c59x module, everything seemed to be
working properly but the card wasn't transmitting or receiving.

At any rate, I got the following message:
  The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device!  Updating PCI command 0000->0005.
eth0: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0xff80, 00:20:af:f1:45:6e, IRQ 11
  32K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is 248.
3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html


checking /proc/net/dev, I got something like this:

Inter-|   Receive                  |  Transmit
 face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
    lo:    118    0    0    0    0      118    0    0    0     0    0
  eth0:      0    0    0    0    0       61    0    0    0     0   61
  ppp0:   5869    0    0    0    0     6540    0    0    0     0    0

Looking at ifconfig:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
          RX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:AF:F1:45:6E  
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:61 coll:0
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xff80 
 
...

  If anyone has any thoughts on this, please let me know.

Thnaks,
Allen