Re: 3COM 3c905c again
There is loads?s shet you need to turn off on the NIC with the floppy disk from a PC? no automatic stuff? no Full duplex and so on?
On mandag 4. desember 2000, Jonathan Lane <jingai@shell.faradic.net> wrote:
>Okay, I swapped cards around, and it turns out that *anything* in
>PCI slots 3-6 are not correctly configured (this is on a UMAX S900).
>I moved the USB card and NIC to slots 1 and 2, and my video card
>to slot 4, which appears to be working (although I've not tried
>using X yet, as XF86 4.0.1 is currently broken...).
>
>However, now I am having another problem: When I ping the machine,
>I see the RX light on the NIC flash, but the source machine doesn't
>get any responses.
>
>A few things to note: Every once in a while, I see the following
>message:
>
> eth1: Setting promiscuous mode.
>
>Also, in my syslog, dhcpd complains with:
>
>Aug 27 16:42:20 colour dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 08:00:46:05:9c:c8 via eth1
>Aug 27 16:42:20 colour dhcpd-2.2.x: no free leases on subnet
>192.168.1.0
>
>(Ignore the date, my clock had yet to be set). But this indicates that
>packets *are* getting thru, as the MAC address shown above is
>correct.
>
>If anyone can shed some light on this matter, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>I'd also like to know why the last four PCI slots don't work properly,
>although it appears it's not incredibly important now, unless X doesn't
>work...
>
>TIA,
>Jonathan
>
>
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