Problem with 3c905 and Mandrake 6.1

[al goldstein]

Hi Mathew,

I recently installed 6.1 on several machines. One of them had the problem you
described. It had  905 and 509 cards. Both ether interfaces came up fine
but no packets were being exported by the cards. Since I wanted to update
the kernel anyway I moved to 2.3.21 and dumped the ether modules. I had to
add an append line for the 509 card for it to be picked up. Voila the
cards worked OK. 

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Matthew Hill wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed Mandrake 6.1 as another bootable OS on my Celeron based
> 
> system. I also have NT 4 and Win98 operating on the same system using the
> 
> installed 3c905 board.
> 
> I am unable to get the 3c905 to access the network under Mandrake. I have
> 
> rebuilt the kernel and tried both the original 3c59x driver as well as the
> 
> 3com 3c90x driver both loading as modules.
> 
> The system seems to prefer the 3c59x driver as it initializes the board fine
> 
> and ifconfig reports eth0 as okay (using IRQ 9 ).
> 
> I currently have the option debug=1 set. When I attempt to ping a local
> 
> linux box there is no response and a message "transmit timed out tx_status
> 
> 00 status e000" is reported.
> 
> Any help or suggestions are welcome. I'm currently considering juggling IRQs
> 
> used by the PCI bus as IRQ 9 is also used by another device (there were no
> 
> sharing complaints so I assumed they both would behave).
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
> matthill@home.com <mailto:matthill@home.com>
> 
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> 

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