RE: 3C905-TX problems

[John Stroud]

Allo,

I also use a 3c905 in an older motherboard, and had similar issues.

What resolved it for me was to turn off P&P in BIOS, install FC1, then
reenabled the P&P.  FWIW, I booted from CD using the Boot ISO image, and
used NFS to install, though I doubt that made any difference.

Hope that helps.
John S. 

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: fedora-list-admin(a)redhat.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Jim Cornette
>  Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:48 PM
>  To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>  Subject: Re: 3C905-TX problems
>  
>  Michael Bernstein wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  >  I'm having problems with my first Linux installation (so 
>  expect some 
>  > naivite).  The Ethernet card - a 3C905-TX on an MSI K7N2G 
>  mobo - is a 
>  > real mare!!  Let me say that all works well under WinXP.  
>  The NIC is 
>  > connected to the Cable modem (ftom ntl in the UK).
>  > 
>  >  I had loads of trouble getting the board to go "active" at 
>  all, but 
>  > finally managed after I turned off kudzu ("chkconfig kudzu 
>  off" and a 
>  > reboot).  Now I can ping and browse, but everything goes at 
>  a snail's 
>  > pace.  If I ping the BBC website I get 50% packet loss.
>  > 
>  >  I've spent a LOT of time with this now so help would be greatly 
>  > appreciated.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Many thx,
>  >   Mike
>  > 
>  > PS   I tried to work with the on-board nVIDIA ethernet but 
>  that wasn't 
>  > recognised, and nVIDIA don't supply a driver for core 2.4.22-1.2115
>  >
>  
>  This card stopped working correctly with The beta for RH10, 
>  which turned into Fedora Core 1.
>  
>  The card has worked from at least RHL 5.2 up to RHL9. It 
>  doesn't work well with Fedora Core 1. Fedora Core 2 (Test 1) 
>  comes out later next week (mid-week). I hope the card works 
>  better with the 2.6 kernel driver for the card and the tools 
>  which setup, detect the card. (ethertool, kudzu, 
>  hwdata,system-config-network and the like.)
>  
>  Mine was a PCI card version (Rev A) and went back to it's 
>  original owner.
>  
>  The workarounds I have heard so far are to set the mode in 
>  the modules.conf file (or modprobe.conf file for the 2.6 kernel)
>  
>  Disable Kudzu and the graphical bootloader.
>  
>  If possible, i would get a cheap NIC, to get a reliable 
>  connection, until the problem with the 3Com NIC get fixed. (If ever)
>  
>  
>  Jim
>  
>  
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