Yes, we have tested every card in the 3 identical (RH) machines in other (MS) machines and they work fine.
I think I will have to give up on this OS as it takes way too much time (=money) to screw around with these simple and trival yet vital functions. Thanx anyway... Hoping 7.3 doesn't have a silly 3com bug, Scott Wilson -----Original Message----- From: BG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Scott Wilson' Subject: RE: 3com nic not getting initialized Maybe a dumb question, but have you tried that card in a machine that is known to be working? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skylyn > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 6:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'Scott Wilson' > Subject: 3com nic not getting initialized > > > Hi, > > First the facts: > > I'm running RH7.2. I have one NIC card. It's a 3Com EtherLink > 10/100 PCI > 3C905C-TX. The CMOS bios settings have Plug and Play > disabled. There are > no IRQ conflicts with any other devices. The NIC card in the > bios states > it is assigned IRQ 5. I have 3 machines "exactly" the same IN > EVERY WAY, > this means identical, on a peer to peer network connected by hub that > has been tested and works. Uplink is off. IP's have been > statically set > as 192.168.0.101 to 192.168.0.103 respectfully. Net mask is > 255.255.255.0. > > The Problem: > > I can't ping anything. When I go into Network Configuration, > the card is > visible. When I go into edit it confirms the IRQ is 5 but when I go to > close the window it states "Ethernet card can not initialize. > Please try > again. (or something like that) > > When I use the command: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.101 netmask > 255.255.255.0 up it states "No device found" > > The 3C905C-TX NIC card is on the compatible list of NIC's but > when I run > the sbin/service network restart I get an error stating restarting of > the *3C590* device has "failed" (something like that) So it > is thinking > it has a 3C590 card even-though the Hardware Browser tool > says that the > network device is a 3C905C card. I have a 3C905C card and > this has been > double triple checked. > > I have kicked this dead horse long enough and have exhausted my > patience. I am new to RedHat but an ol' pro to networking. Please, > someone help. > > Upgrading the 3com drivers wasted one week of my time. > > I see the same problem with the same 3com card with many > other users out > there but no one out there has an answer yet... > > Can you solve this riddle? Ask as many questions as you like. I am > usually at either email address above so reply to all when responding. > > Thank you, > > Scott Wilson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
