[vortex] 3c590 on PowerMac

[Sebastiaan]

Hello,

I am having some trouble getting the 3c590 working. I had it installed
on a i386 pc and it worked fine, both the BNC and UTP connectors. Now I
also have a Mac PPC with only an UTP connector. So I decided to put the
3c590 in the powermac so my network can stay on coax. I do not know if
the card is made for PC's and PowerMac's, but when I do an 'insmod
3c59x.o' it detects the card and I get the following message in
/var/log/messages:

May 28 04:02:01 aluqah syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
May 28 04:02:01 aluqah syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
May 28 04:02:01 aluqah syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
May 28 04:02:01 aluqah syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
May 28 04:02:01 aluqah syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
May 28 04:22:00 aluqah anacron[2004]: Updated timestamp for job
`cron.weekly' to 2000-05-28
May 28 20:36:17 aluqah PAM_pwdb[531]: (login) session opened for user
root by LOGIN(uid=0)
May 28 20:38:45 aluqah kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
May 28 20:38:45 aluqah kernel: eth1: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0x400,
00:a0:24:88:e1:c0, IRQ 25
May 28 20:38:45 aluqah kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split,
10baseT interface.
May 28 20:38:45 aluqah kernel:   Media override to transceiver type 3
(10base2).
May 28 20:39:27 aluqah kernel: eth1: Media override to transceiver 3
(10base2).



I take the following steps:
# insmod 3x59x.o debug=6 options=3
# ifconfig  eth1 192.168.10.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
# ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:88:E1:C0
            inet addr:192.168.10.3  Bcast:192.168.10.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
            Interrupt:25 Base a address:0x400

lo          Link encap:Local Loopback
            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
            RX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX pacvkets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

# route -n
Kernel IP routing tasble
Destination        Gateway    Genmask             Flags    Metrix
Ref    Use    Iface
192.168.10.0    0.0.0.0      255.255.255.0    U          0
0           0    eth1
127.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      255.0.0.0            U
0            0           0    lo

But when I do a 'ping 192.168.10.2' from this computer, the command
responds with a 'Destination Host Unreachable', when I do a ping
192.168.10.3 from another computer to this one, I get the same message.

System specifications:
PowerMac 7300/166 with YellowDogLinux 1.2 (mostly compatible with
RedHat, except all the red letters are coloured yellow here)

Someone any idea what could be wrong?

Thanks,
Sebastiaan