3com 905 ethernet card problems

[Jim Cornette]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Pavel Rosenboim (pavelr at coresma.com) said: 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> Yes, there are probably 5-10 instances of 3c59x failing completely
> in bugzilla; dunno what the issue is yet.
> 
> Bill
> 

It seems that a lot of people decided to switch out their cards. I don't 
know how many users swapped cards and did not report the problems 
encountered with the card.

My problem seemed that it was detected as the wrong card and the wrong 
driver was installed for Severn and later kernels.

Severn was my first encounter with the card misbehaving fully. (Check 
cable). I did have troubles starting GNOME with later nptl versions of 
the kernel with RHL 9. I backed off to sticking with the latest released 
kernels. (not even suspecting NIC related failures. Just a busting GNOME 
with later kernels)

Jim

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