5.0 and 5.0.1: wrong base address used for 3com NIC
Booting Knoppix 5.0 DVD and 5.0.1 CD on any of my machines here results
in wrong base address shown for eth0 from ifconfig command. Machines
tested are PII & PIII+BX motherboard with 3Com 3c900B NIC. Base
address of eth0 should be 0x6800 but values have been 0, 0x2000,
0xa000, 0xc000, 0xe000. On a third machine (K6-2+VIA) with two NICs
(3c900 and 3c905B) eth0 has correct address but eth1 varies like above.
NICs function on all machines except one. Previous versions of Knoppix
are ok.
I tracked down these lines in dmesg:
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0b.0
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www .scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Cyclone 10Mbps TPC at d085a000. Vers LK1.1.19
The "at d085a000" would be "at 0x6800" on previous versions of Knoppix.
In this example ifconfig shows eth0 base address as 0xa000.
Unfortunately, I only have 3com cards for testing. lspci show correct
values. The command hwsetup also shows the correct base address.
/proc/ioports has correct address but looks malformed?
Futher details at: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24746
Is this a driver and/or kernel bug? And any way of getting around it?
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