Problem with 3c905 and Mandrake 6.1

Kevin Ford kevin.ford@natpower.com
Mon Feb 14 07:05:46 2000


Try cat /proc/interrupts

that should tell you all you IRQ settings.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Hill [SMTP:matthill@home.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 5:07 PM
> To:   linux-vortex@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Subject:      Re: Problem with 3c905 and Mandrake 6.1
> 
> Followup:
> 
> I have the alias for eth0 set in /etc/conf.modules to 3c59x.
> I tried to eliminate the IRQ sharing for the3c905  as I'd heard that some
> PCI NICs don't particularly share well. It didn't to make a difference. I
> am still unable to transmit or receive, though the card
> initializes okay and is reported as okay (with correct IRQ, MAC, I/O with
> ifconfig -a
>  
> What else can I try?
>  Outside of replacing the NIC with an old ISA, I've run out of
> ideas...HELP!
>  
> TIA
> Matt
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Matthew Hill < matthill@home.com <mailto:matthill@home.com>>
>       To: linux-vortex@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> <mailto:linux-vortex@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov> <
> linux-vortex@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> <mailto:linux-vortex@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>>
>       Date: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:28 AM
>       Subject: Problem with 3c905 and Mandrake 6.1
>       
>       
>       Hi,
> 
>       I recently installed Mandrake 6.1 as another bootable OS on my
> Celeron based
> 
>       system. I also have NT 4 and Win98 operating on the same system
> using the
> 
>       installed 3c905 board.
> 
>       I am unable to get the 3c905 to access the network under Mandrake. I
> have
> 
>       rebuilt the kernel and tried both the original 3c59x driver as well
> as the
> 
>       3com 3c90x driver both loading as modules.
> 
>       The system seems to prefer the 3c59x driver as it initializes the
> board fine
> 
>       and ifconfig reports eth0 as okay (using IRQ 9 ).
> 
>       I currently have the option debug=1 set. When I attempt to ping a
> local
> 
>       linux box there is no response and a message "transmit timed out
> tx_status
> 
>       00 status e000" is reported.
> 
>       Any help or suggestions are welcome. I'm currently considering
> juggling IRQs
> 
>       used by the PCI bus as IRQ 9 is also used by another device (there
> were no
> 
>       sharing complaints so I assumed they both would behave).
> 
>       thanks,
> 
>       Matt
> 
>       matthill@home.com <mailto:matthill@home.com>
> 
>        
> 


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