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Re: 3COM905B 10/100 Ethernet Config



If you are using Frozen from January 27 the boot disks had problems.
They have now been corrected.

Try switching slots...

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Todd Suess wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I installed a new 3COM Ethernet Card into my Debian Box in preparation
> for the install of my cable modem in a week or so, and after recompiling the
> kernel (2.2.14) with the correct Ethernet Driver, during bootup the card 
> does not
> seem to be sensed at all, and no eth0 device gets created.  I can do a 
> lspci on the
> card, and this is the output, if that is helpful at all.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get this beast working would be 
> appreiciated.  According to
> the Ethernet HOWTO if the driver is installed it should automagically 
> detect the card
> and no /dev entry is required, I should just be able to do ifconfig and see 
> a new
> interface called eth0.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Todd
> 
> blackhole:~# lspci
> 
> <irrelevant stuff snipped>
> 
> 
> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] 
> (rev 30)
>          Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 9055
>          Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>          Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+
>          Latency: 10 min, 10 max, 64 set, cache line size 08
>          Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>          Region 0: I/O ports at 6800
>          Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>          Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>                  Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1+ D2+ PME-
>                  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> blackhole:~#
> 
> 
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