3com 3c905x cards and Kudzu problems?

[DanG]

I am running an up2date on my fresh Fedora test3 install. I know the 2.6
series kernel does not have this problem with Kudzu and the 3com cards with
Fedora. I will see if the updated kernel and kudzu fixes this issue.

						Dan

					 

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jim Cornette
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:27 AM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: 3com 3c905x cards and Kudzu problems?

DanG wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
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>             I have had the same problem with my pci 3c905x card 
> initializing with Fedora since beta2 and it still exists in the current 
> beta. I have some pretty good basic hardware an ASUS P2B BX based 
> mainboard and P3 500 with 396 MB ram etc. All supported hardware that 
> worked like a charm with Redhat since release 7.0 to 9. 

Same card, but from 5.2 to 9, worked OK.

What I found
> with Fedora was that the card did not initialize properly at boot 
> therefore no IP. 

Mine cried check cable, it might be unplugged.

The problem is with Kudzu running at boot and this card
> initializing. If I turn off Kudzu at the boot run level (through 
> chkconfig) and reboot the network card works like a charm and 
> initializes. If I boot with Kudzu on then stop Kudzu and try restarting 
> the network service eth0 still fails to initialize. I have to have Kudzu 
> off during boot for the 3c905X to work. Very weird. Anyone know of a 
> workaround or solution to this without turning Kudzu off? I am using 
> kernel 2.4.22-1.2088.nptl.

So kudzu is interferring with the NIC, even though kudzu would not 
change any configuration settings? If this is the case, no wonder the 
problem was so hard to remedy.

Does kudzu do detection using IRQ 10, as the 3com NIC uses?

My NIC that uses IRQ 11 and still a 3com doesn't have this problem.

I swapped out the IRQ 10  (boomerang) until this problem can be resolved.

Jim

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> Thanks,
> 
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>

> Dan
> 



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