Problems with 3c905-TX card

Richard Cramer rmcramer@mindspring.com
Thu Oct 8 12:24:52 1998


When I boot my machine up I get the following message about the 3c905 card:

3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
  The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device!  Updating PCI command 0004->0005.
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xfc40, 00:60:97:a1:98:8c, IRQ 255
 *** Warning: IRQ 255 is unlikely to work! ***
  8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/NWay Autonegotiation interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

Has anyone seen this warning?  I have looked everywhere I know to find info on what the above warning means and how I might fix it.  I am currently running Red Hat 5.1 with kernel version 2.0.35 and have downloaded and recompiled 3c59x.c.  The card works fine using Windows 95 on the same machine (Pentium 233 MMX).

Where should I look for more information on solving this problem. 

Thanks in advance,

Richard Cramer
rmcramer@mindspring.com