It may of course be pure coincidence, but I have just upgraded one of my systems from RH9 to FC1, and my ethernet card has stopped working.
Could it be a coincidental hardware problem, or is it a software problem? Here is the output from dmesg:
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0
I qam wondering if IRQ 10 was messed around with Kudzu probing this card.
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt 00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0xd000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
I heard that disabling kudzu during initial bootup will allow your ethernet card to work properly. I have a similar card, but did not reinstall it back into the machine.
The last time that I tried the card, it fouled up a lot of programs with the faulty driver. My boomerang was recognized as a cyclone and would not work.
Anyway, from what I heard. It is kudzu leaving the card in an incorrect state. After the card is probed, it does not function properly. If it was not probed by kudzu, reports have it that it works normally.
I thought that it was caused by the incorrect driver being used for the card. I don't know if the driver is failed or Kudzu is fouling up the state of the card on exit. This card seems to be pretty popular though.
As stated earlier, there are various bugs filed on this card for RHEL, Severn Betas and probably Fedora Core.
If you run dhclient from a root terminal, does your card get an address? Mine got the address, but worked incorrectly. Mozilla, GNOME and a few other progams would fail to work.
Jim
00:a0:24:cf:ad:ab, IRQ 10 product code 4650 rev 00.0 date 07-18-96 Internal config register is 10302d8, transceivers 0xe138. 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. 00:0a.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums disabled divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature. divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt 00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0xd000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac 00:a0:24:cf:ad:ab, IRQ 10 product code 4650 rev 00.0 date 07-18-96 Internal config register is 102001b, transceivers 0xe138. 64K word-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. 00:0a.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums disabled divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature. eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register d0. Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1(1) current 1(1) Transmit list 00000000 vs. cea6f240. 0: @cea6f200 length 8000002a status 8000002a 1: @cea6f240 length 00000000 status 00000000 2: @cea6f280 length 00000000 status 00000000 3: @cea6f2c0 length 00000000 status 00000000 4: @cea6f300 length 00000000 status 00000000 5: @cea6f340 length 00000000 status 00000000 6: @cea6f380 length 00000000 status 00000000 7: @cea6f3c0 length 00000000 status 00000000 8: @cea6f400 length 00000000 status 00000000 9: @cea6f440 length 00000000 status 00000000 10: @cea6f480 length 00000000 status 00000000 11: @cea6f4c0 length 00000000 status 00000000 12: @cea6f500 length 00000000 status 00000000 13: @cea6f540 length 00000000 status 00000000 14: @cea6f580 length 00000000 status 00000000 15: @cea6f5c0 length 00000000 status 00000000
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