3com 905 ethernet card problems

[Pavel Rosenboim]

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.