3com 905 ethernet card problems

[Iain Rae]

John Alexander Thacker wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:29:28PM +0200, Pavel Rosenboim wrote:
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>>Dave Jones wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>Just tried to boot with acpi=off. Same behavior.
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>I saw the same with a 3C509B.  I ended up just swapping out another
>card, a NetGear, which worked fine.
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Hmm I hit the problem with a 905, tried another and in the end a 905B 
fixed it.