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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