Hi, First the facts:
I'm running RH7.2. I have one NIC card. It's a 3Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI 3C905C-TX. The CMOS bios settings have Plug and Play disabled. There are no IRQ conflicts with any other devices. The NIC card in the bios states it is assigned IRQ 5. I have 3 machines "exactly" the same IN EVERY WAY, this means identical, on a peer to peer network connected by hub that has been tested and works. Uplink is off. IP's have been statically set as 192.168.0.101 to 192.168.0.103 respectfully. Net mask is 255.255.255.0. The Problem: I can't ping anything. When I go into Network Configuration, the card is visible. When I go into edit it confirms the IRQ is 5 but when I go to close the window it states "Ethernet card can not initialize. Please try again. (or something like that) When I use the command: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 up it states "No device found" The 3C905C-TX NIC card is on the compatible list of NIC's but when I run the sbin/service network restart I get an error stating restarting of the *3C590* device has "failed" (something like that) So it is thinking it has a 3C590 card even-though the Hardware Browser tool says that the network device is a 3C905C card. I have a 3C905C card and this has been double triple checked. I have kicked this dead horse long enough and have exhausted my patience. I am new to RedHat but an ol' pro to networking. Please, someone help. Upgrading the 3com drivers wasted one week of my time. I see the same problem with the same 3com card with many other users out there but no one out there has an answer yet... Can you solve this riddle? Ask as many questions as you like. I am usually at either email address above so reply to all when responding. Thank you, Scott Wilson _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
