3com 905 ethernet card problems

Pavel Rosenboim pavelr at coresma.com
Wed Oct 8 16:29:28 UTC 2003


Dave Jones wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:00:48AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>  > > I'm using 3com 905 (boomerang) ethernet card. In fedora it is completely
>  > > non-functional. Sometimes I see messages about transmit errors on the
>  > > console. This card works fine with 2.6.0-test6 kernel, but not with any
>  > > of Fedora kernels. Anyone see the same behavior?
>  > 
>  > I saw similar behavior on my AMD64 system in 64bit mode.  The answer was 
>  > to boot with acpi=off (add it to your grub.conf if it works).  As it is an 
>  > ACPI issue, it might not be limited to 64bit kernels.  More detail is 
>  > available in bugzilla for taroon, 
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105917
> 
> Fedora kernel has quite a few ACPI fixes in the interrupt routing area,
> which Taroon doesn't have, so this shouldn't be the cause.
> It is possible however there are still a few corner cases.
> 
> If the 3com problem goes away with acpi disabled (Ie, don't pass
> acpi=on or acpi=force at boot time), then there's still something still
> not quite right.

Just tried to boot with acpi=off. Same behavior.

Pavel.






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