3com 905 ethernet card problems
Pavel Rosenboim
pavelr at coresma.com
Thu Oct 9 11:24:52 UTC 2003
Jim Cornette wrote:
> Pavel Rosenboim wrote:
>
>> Dave Jones wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:00:48AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>>> > > I'm using 3com 905 (boomerang) ethernet card. In fedora it is
>>> completely
>>> > > non-functional. Sometimes I see messages about transmit errors
>>> on the
>>> > > console. This card works fine with 2.6.0-test6 kernel, but not
>>> with any
>>> > > of Fedora kernels. Anyone see the same behavior?
>>> > > I saw similar behavior on my AMD64 system in 64bit mode. The
>>> answer was > to boot with acpi=off (add it to your grub.conf if it
>>> works). As it is an > ACPI issue, it might not be limited to 64bit
>>> kernels. More detail is > available in bugzilla for taroon, >
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105917
>>>
>>> Fedora kernel has quite a few ACPI fixes in the interrupt routing area,
>>> which Taroon doesn't have, so this shouldn't be the cause.
>>> It is possible however there are still a few corner cases.
>>>
>>> If the 3com problem goes away with acpi disabled (Ie, don't pass
>>> acpi=on or acpi=force at boot time), then there's still something still
>>> not quite right.
>>
>>
>>
>> Just tried to boot with acpi=off. Same behavior.
>>
>> Pavel.
>>
>
> Do you get an error relating to check cable during booting? I did! Since
> your card sounds similar to the card that I had troubles with. I was
> wondering if it gave you a similar error on system startup.
I don't remember any such messages.
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