Re: Installing a 3c905b-tx pci nic

[Christopher Zarrella <serge io com>]

Craig Johannsen wrote:
> 
> Try cold-booting (power off, then switch back on
> and boot straight into Linux).  Nothing will work
> properly until you get rid of that ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.
> The need to cold-boot many of the newer 3Com cards
> is a known problem, as yet unresolved, I believe.
> Does anyone have a better solution?  With the older
> ISA cards you could just turn of plug-n-pray and configure
> them manually.
> 
> Christopher Zarrella wrote:
> > Linux reports:  3c905b Cyclone 100 base TX
> >                 at 0xfc00, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, IRQ9
> >                 (I know this is wrong, there is no MAC Address)
> >
> 
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A cold boot did the trick.  The MAC address is reported.  Unfortunately,
when I do an ifup ifcfg-eth0 I get the same symptoms:  complete system
lock with no error reporting.   Makes it difficult to troubleshoot.  The
3c905b-tx card works fine under Windows, so I know its good.

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Christopher Zarrella
serge io com
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