Allo, I also use a 3c905 in an older motherboard, and had similar issues. What resolved it for me was to turn off P&P in BIOS, install FC1, then reenabled the P&P. FWIW, I booted from CD using the Boot ISO image, and used NFS to install, though I doubt that made any difference. Hope that helps. John S. > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Cornette > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:48 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: 3C905-TX problems > > Michael Bernstein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having problems with my first Linux installation (so > expect some > > naivite). The Ethernet card - a 3C905-TX on an MSI K7N2G > mobo - is a > > real mare!! Let me say that all works well under WinXP. > The NIC is > > connected to the Cable modem (ftom ntl in the UK). > > > > I had loads of trouble getting the board to go "active" at > all, but > > finally managed after I turned off kudzu ("chkconfig kudzu > off" and a > > reboot). Now I can ping and browse, but everything goes at > a snail's > > pace. If I ping the BBC website I get 50% packet loss. > > > > I've spent a LOT of time with this now so help would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > > > Many thx, > > Mike > > > > PS I tried to work with the on-board nVIDIA ethernet but > that wasn't > > recognised, and nVIDIA don't supply a driver for core 2.4.22-1.2115 > > > > This card stopped working correctly with The beta for RH10, > which turned into Fedora Core 1. > > The card has worked from at least RHL 5.2 up to RHL9. It > doesn't work well with Fedora Core 1. Fedora Core 2 (Test 1) > comes out later next week (mid-week). I hope the card works > better with the 2.6 kernel driver for the card and the tools > which setup, detect the card. (ethertool, kudzu, > hwdata,system-config-network and the like.) > > Mine was a PCI card version (Rev A) and went back to it's > original owner. > > The workarounds I have heard so far are to set the mode in > the modules.conf file (or modprobe.conf file for the 2.6 kernel) > > Disable Kudzu and the graphical bootloader. > > If possible, i would get a cheap NIC, to get a reliable > connection, until the problem with the 3Com NIC get fixed. (If ever) > > > Jim > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
