[vortex] HELP: problem configuring 3c905c-TX-M linux

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Bin Wang wrote:

> I have problems configuring my 3c905c-TX-M card 
> (3com EtherLink 10/100 PCI for complete PC mangement NIC)
> under RedHat6.2(kernel 2.2.14-5.0smp).

First of all, with this version of the kernel, the 3c59x driver was not
updated to recognize correctly the 3C905C cards. Either use the 3Com
driver (3c90x) from this kernel, or upgrade to kernel 2.2.16-3 (also from
RH, to which you might want to upgrade for security reasons anyway).

> I have two nics in one system. The other one is an integrated 
> nic which is on an Intel OR840 motherboard.
> So I tried disabling the integrated nic.
> 
> I booted linux (RedHat6.2 kernel 2.2.14-5.0smp) with an option pci=conf2. 
> Otherwise, kernel hang forever at "PCI: probing pci hardware".

I guess it's a PCI problem. Try moving the card to another slot. Try
selecting "Bus 0" if you have several PCI buses. With some BIOS-es is
possible to assign an IRQ for the card.
If it's still not working, please show us /proc/pci, /proc/interrupts and
the detection messages from network driver initialization.

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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