[vortex] 3COM 3c982-TXM card with RH-7.1 on a HP-x2000 server

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Dr. Guenter Schmidt wrote:

> I'm testing a 3COM 3c982-TXM network card under RedHat 7.1 on a 
> HP x2000 server. The card first looks like being correctly
> detected,
> bat the ifconfig showes a MAC address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.

The card isn't getting power.

> vortex-diag.c:v2.05 5/15/2001 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
>  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Index #1: Found a 3c982 Dual Port server NIC adapter at 0x5000.
> The Vortex chip may be active, so FIFO registers will not be
> read.
> To see all register values use the '-f' flag.
> Initial window 7, registers values by window:
>   Window 0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff.

The PCI bus returns all ones, 'ffff', when the device doesn't respond.

Check the PCI power state of the hardware.  Various 2.4 kernels have had
problems with the PCI power state setting.

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