On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Dan Browning wrote:
>My 3Com Fast EtherLink XL NIC (3C905B-TX) locks on RedHat 6.1 during
>/sbin/ifup (where the boot scripts say, "Bringing up interface eth0"). It
>just sits their for a long time. I've booted into single user mode and
>insmod works fine, then when I
> #/sbin/ifup eth0
>It just sits there. The card works fine in 6.0, and 5.x.
>
That sounds like you are using the wrong driver, i have one of these
cards but i need to use the 3c59x driver, to make sure we are talking
about the same card (mine is a pci device) here is the output of
proc/pci
Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
Medium devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe9000000].
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
I suggest you make an entry in /etc/conf.modules or if you are using
the latest version of modutils its now /etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 3c59x
Nothing further is needed.
>I may switch back to an Intel Pro/100+ Management adapter. Have
you guys >seen those new intel cards? They're small! The controller
on the board is >smaller than my thumbnail. But they're high-quality
and fast IMO. >
>Thanks for any help,
>-dan
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