Boomerang card detected, but not working in RedHat 5.2

[John D'Arcy]

Hi.

Under RedHat 5.2 (Apollo kernel), with the updated 3c59x.c driver (.99F
as well as .99E) the card is correctly initialized on IRQ 10, but can
not connect to the DHCP server.  I tried configuring the network
settings manually and using bootp, but it still won't connect.

<< This is the output from vortex-diag: >>

vortex-diag.c:v1.05 5/22/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Found a 3Com PCI Ethernet 3c905 rev 0 at 0xef00.
EEPROM contents:
  0060 0838 d8fe 9050 c2fb 0036 4b4b 6d50
  0418 0000 0060 0838 d8fe 0010 0000 0000
  10a6 0000 02d8 0063 0000 0002 0000 00f3
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
 The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0xe81e.
Parsing the EEPROM of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang:
 3Com Node Address 00:60:08:38:D8:FE (used as a unique ID only).
 OEM Station address 00:60:08:38:D8:FE (used as the ethernet address).
 Manufacture date (MM/DD/YY) 7/27/97, division 6, product KK.
Options: .
  Vortex checksum is f3 (vs. f3),Cyclone checksum is 00 (vs. ffff).

<<This is the output from mii-diag >>

 MII PHY #24 transceiver registers:
   3100 7849 2000 5c01 01e1 0000 0010 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 8060
   8020 0c78 0000 3000 a3b9 0080 c605 001b.
 Basic mode control register 0x3100: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x7849 ... 7849.
   Link status: not established.
   Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
 Vendor ID is 08:00:17:--:--:--, model 0 rev. 1.
   Vendor/Part: National Semiconductor 83840A.
 I'm advertising 01e1: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT
   Advertising no additional info pages.
   IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD protocol.
 Link partner capability is 0000:.
   Negotiation did not complete.

This card had given me problems under windows 95 as well.  It would
randomly connect to the network (IPX and TCP/IP) on bootup.  The problem

was fixed with an updated driver from 3com.  I'm hoping an updated
driver for linux will eventually solve the problem.   I should also
point out that I ran this card on an older P166 system without any
problems.

I'm running on a custom built computer.  These are its specifications:

Motherboard: SuperMicro P6-SLS (extra processor slot which isnt used)
Processor:      Intel Pentium 2 333
Soundcard:     SoundBlaster AWE64
Ethernet:         3com 905-TX (Boomerang)
Network:        10Base-T
Video:            Matrox Millenium II

64M Ram...etc...etc...

I hope the information I gave helps.  I'd really like to get this to
work without having to buy a new card.  Thanks.

-John