[vortex-bug] HP OmniBook 6000 3c556 failure

Frank Sweetser rasmusin@wpi.edu
Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:58:21 -0400


On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:02:01AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Frank Sweetser wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >         I've got an HP OmniBook 6000 with a builtin 3c556 driver.  I
> > tried the latest 3c59x driver set from www.scyld.com under kernel
> > 2.2.17pre15, but all I can get is init_module: device or resource busy.
> > Any ideas of where I can start poking at anything?
> 
> One person has reported a new flavour of 3c556 - we're still playing
> around trying to get it going via email :(.
> 
> Could you please run `lspci -vx' and send us the output?

Note that I *did* manage to get this card working with the stock 3c59x with
a patch from Alan Cox.

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556 10/100 Mini PCI Adapter (rev 10)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 6256
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at 1080
        Memory at f4000400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1
00: b7 10 55 60 17 00 10 02 10 00 00 02 08 50 80 00
10: 81 10 00 00 00 04 00 f4 00 00 00 f4 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b7 10 56 62
30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 0a 05

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