3com 905 ethernet card problems

[Jim Cornette]

Pavel Rosenboim wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:00:48AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>>  > > I'm using 3com 905 (boomerang) ethernet card. In fedora it is 
>> completely
>>  > > non-functional. Sometimes I see messages about transmit errors on 
>> the
>>  > > console. This card works fine with 2.6.0-test6 kernel, but not 
>> with any
>>  > > of Fedora kernels. Anyone see the same behavior?
>>  >  > I saw similar behavior on my AMD64 system in 64bit mode.  The 
>> answer was  > to boot with acpi=off (add it to your grub.conf if it 
>> works).  As it is an  > ACPI issue, it might not be limited to 64bit 
>> kernels.  More detail is  > available in bugzilla for taroon,  > 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105917
>>
>> Fedora kernel has quite a few ACPI fixes in the interrupt routing area,
>> which Taroon doesn't have, so this shouldn't be the cause.
>> It is possible however there are still a few corner cases.
>>
>> If the 3com problem goes away with acpi disabled (Ie, don't pass
>> acpi=on or acpi=force at boot time), then there's still something still
>> not quite right.
> 
> 
> Just tried to boot with acpi=off. Same behavior.
> 
> Pavel.
> 

Do you get an error relating to check cable during booting? I did! Since 
your card sounds similar to the card that I had troubles with. I was 
wondering if it gave you a similar error on system startup.


Jim


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