From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 16:46:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 16:46:35 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:5648 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 16:46:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD98E6D.F0F5BC4B@zip.com.au> Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 13:45:33 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rscuss@omniti.com CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 3C509C Odd Behavior In-Reply-To: <3CD98B36.8060203@omniti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Scussel wrote: > > I have read through the list seeing many emails on the 3c59x module, > however, what I found for the recent posts was for laptops. > > Here is the situation > > Tyan S2466 motherboard with 3Com (3c509c) onboard nic, Intel > eepro100 pci nic. RedHat 7.2 XFS. When the machine boots, the intel > card comes up fine. The 3com card appears to initialize, can be seen > from the box itself, however cannot ping out to anything else, and > cannot be pinged from anywhere. If I down and up the card twice, it > comes up fine with no more worries. No errors are generated. The same > behavior occurs with the default 2.4.9 kernel that comes with 7.2 > install, and with the 2.4.18 kernel. Please enable debugging with the `debug=7' module parameter and send me the logs from the whole session, including when it doesn't work, and when it does. There's more info on the debug tools in Documentation/networking/vortex.txt. Thanks.