3C905-TX problems

[John Stroud]

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 at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jim Cornette
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 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
> 
> 
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