[ale] 3Com905B/C solution?

[John Jeffrey Rose]

If your system sees the card......    After booting up.  Type dmesg and look for the card in the messages.  Mine is at the 
very bottom.  The address and IRQ should be listed.  don't know about the rest.

1/7/02 12:36:41 PM, Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> wrote:

>How do I find out and set the right IRQ setting?  Can I force a module
>to take on a particular IRQ using LILO or modeprobe during bootup?  I
>guess the diagnostic tools could tell me the preset IRQ in the EEPROM,
>correct?
>Dow
>
>Leonard Thornton wrote:
>> 
>> I have seen your exact symptoms with other 3Com cards (specifically
>> 3c509).   The issue is that the IRQ settings are incorrect between the
>> module and the actual device.
>> 
>> At 10:14 AM 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>> >How can I guarantee to make a 3Com905B/C network card work?  The
>> >interface is built in to the Dell motherboard.  I have tried several of
>> >the Vortex 3Com59x/90x driver's options when loading the module, but to
>> >no avail.  Searching the list servs has yielded different possible
>> >solutions but no guaranteed solution.  The cards show up as available
>> >recognized hardware and can be configured but no packets are received.
>> >In some cases the cards show transmission packets under ifconfig but
>> >never Rx packets.  In other cases the cards immediately work and no
>> >problems are encountered.  So far, if they don't work, I can never get
>> >them to work.
>> >
>> >Do I need to download a DOS based 3Com driver config program and turn
>> >off/on pluginplay?  Is that the key?  This is one step I have not tried,
>> >nor have I gotten Becker's MII diagnostic program either.  I just want a
>> >guaranteed way to configure the cards.  Maybe a BIOS upgrade would be in
>> >order too?
>> >
>> >The machines vary from no name PCs to Dells but all have either a 3Com
>> >590 or 905 ethernet card as a separate physical card or as an integrated
>> >option.  The OS I am using is SuSE 7.3 and the Vortex driver is from
>> >June 2001.
>> >Dow
>> >
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>> The difficult while you wait.....the impossible overnight.
>> 
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>Systems Support Specialist  Fax:    770-423-6744
>1000 Chastain Rd.
>Chemistry Department SC428  Email:dhurst at kennesaw.edu
>Kennesaw State University         Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
>Kennesaw, GA 30144
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