Network card problem

[Jim Cornette]

Ed Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 18:11, Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I just install Fedora Test 3 and have encountered my first problem.
>>
>>Fedora detected my Ethernet card as a "3c900 10BaseT[Boomerang]" card.
>>I also made sure that it was obtaining IP stuff through DHCP.
> 
> 
> 
> I installed the current Fedora on an older and fairly generic PII system
> yesterday and got repeated "eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82"
> messages using a 3c905.  The bug has been reported at:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107389
> 
> I'm wondering: are other people having problems with 3c905 or similar
> cards?
> 
> Ed
> 

 From the bug posted, I got this excerpt below.

00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]

I have a card that is considered this model also.
it is recognized as a hurricane model. It doesn't work very well at all 
as this card type. It caused a check cable error. Then after running 
dhclient, it got a lease address from my router.

That is all well, except it still had problems with starting GNOME, 
locking up mozlla etc.

I since switched out the card for a tornado (3 com) and it works fine.

My Boomerang card worked great for all releases up to RHL 9. It failed 
miserably when tried from an upgrade from RHL 7.3 to Severn 1 and also 
when trying to do a fresh install.

I was trying some test kernels when using RH 9. The test kernel 2.5.68 
compiled fine. I think that it failed with 2.5.70 and I stopped trying 
to compile test kernels when that happened.

I think that there are a lot of 3com Boomerang cards out there. I eard 
that they worked good with NT4 and other cards were troublesome with 
early NT. If there are a lot of corporate users who migrate their 
hardware, like I like to do. From lesser machines to newer machines. It 
is important that this prolem is resolved.

Since you say that your card was recogized as a 00:0d.0 Ethernet 
controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]. I ought to put 
the card back in to see what it acts like. I hope it acts like it used 
to. But it sounds like it only shifted the problem over to others.

Jim

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