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Your 3COM 905 network card doesn't work or doesn't work flawlessly. There are possibly problems after an update.
Please check first, whether this is really a problem with that network card ! Therefore please check the network configuration (routing, nameserver, ...). If this doesn't explain the failure, there might really be a problem with the hardware.
There are two main sources of information :
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c
)
Please check the entries in /etc/conf.modules
. There must be an entry like
alias eth0 3c59xOptionally there might also be a line with options for the card like
# options 3c59x options=0Please make sure there is a comment sign in front of that line.
This can be solved with an appropriate entry in the options
line mentioned above. With this line
you can switch the driver to the desired mode (thereby switching off the autodetection of the driver). Here's
an excerpt from Donald Beckers Homepage, which explains some details :
An example of loading the vortex module is insmod 3c59x.o debug=1 options=0,,12 This sets the debug message level to minimal messages, sets the first card to the 10baseT transceiver, the second to the EEPROM-set transceiver, and the third card to operate in full-duplex mode using its 100baseTx transceiver. (Note: card ordering is set by the PCI BIOS.) Possible media type settings 0 10baseT, or use default setting. 1 10Mbps AUI 2 undefined (special case: 10baseT from the LILO prompt) 3 10base2 (BNC) 4 100base-TX 5 100base-FX 6 MII (always the correct transceiver type on the 3c905) 8 16 Full-duplex bit 16 10baseT full-duplex 20 100baseTx full-duplex 32 Bus-master enable bit (experimental use only!)E.g., If you want to run the card in Full-Duplex 100Mbit-Mode, enter the following parameters in the
options
line :
options 3c59x options=12
Here the following two topics might help :
You may need to power-cycle the machine for this device to work!
So please follow this advice : Switch the machine off ... half a minute should be enough. The message should not appear anymore afterwards.
Keywords: 3C905, 3C90X, 3C9XX, 3COM, NETWORK, NETWORK CARD, BOOMERANG
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