FC3 and 3Com Corporation 3c556B CardBus NIC

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:18 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:53 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> > Philip R. Schaffner said:
> > > Have been unable to get the NIC on my IBM ThinkPad A21p to work on any
> > > kernel since FC3T1 came out.  Problem is still present in FC3 final.
> > >
> > >> From lspci:
> > >>
> > > 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556B CardBus [Tornado]
> > > (rev 20)
> > >
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131293
> > 
> > Looks a lot like
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107389
> > 
> > -- 
> > William Hooper
> 
> Looked that one way back, before filing my bug, and don't think thats
> the answer.  That bug is marked CLOSED/RAWHIDE and reportedly things
> worked for FC3T2 and beyond.  My system works for FC1/FC2 as long as
> "acpi=off" is specified as a grub kernel parameter.  Can't get the NIC
> in my system to work for FC3t1-FC3 final kernels regardless of kernel
> parameters tried.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> Phil

Replying to my own post with an update...

Tried building "generic" 2.6.10-rc2 kernel - without ACPI support as
that has been problematic on ThinkPad A21p.  Works fine.  Problems
must be with FC patches or build options.

Phil