[98178] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Problem with Vortex Card in Gateway E-2200
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Stearns)
Sat Nov 7 02:12:33 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 02:15:19 -0500 (EST)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
To: Josh Kuperman <sar_kuper@sals.edu>
cc: ML-redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> Bill,
[snip]
> You can read the gist below. I figured the vortex list, which you may or
> may not read, seemed the best place to find out what's going on. I'm
> starting to think the 3com card in the gateway is screwy.
Josh, you're going to hate me for even asking this... :-( Would
you be willing to try swapping the Vortex NIC that you're not sure about
and the Ethernet cable for known good cards? Also, would you plug the
Ethernet cable into another port on your Ethernet hub?
Try "cat /proc/interrupts" and see which interrupt is being used
for the vortex. Shut down the system, power it off and on, go into cmos
setup and check the advanced/pci configuration. Make sure that interrupt
is set to "PCI/Plug&Play-ISA" or just "PCI", but not "ISA".
A thousand pardons if you've already tried these...
Cheers,
- Bill
> --
>
> Hardware-Software Red-Hat 2.0.34-06 running on Gateway E-2200 with a 3com
> Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 MB TX Ethernet NIC (3C905B) on IRQ9. I compiled a
> modular Kernel
>
> At first I thought I was simply having a problem with DHCP. After checking
> outnumerous things I was able to verify some network communication, but the
> "child ain't right".
>
> 1. In Wintel world mode the link on the mini-hub I'm using stays on. In
> Linux mode it is always off except for an odd flicker.
> 2. I was able to get it to print over the network to an HP Printer on an NT
> Server.
> 3. I can run tcpdump and see all sorts of traffic.
> 4. When I try something to connect to a web site or to telnet I can't quite
> get anywhere. I was sorta briefly able to telnet to a Linux box in the same
> room. Any attempts to get out would generate what looked like normal
> traffic to me (I'm not real good, but it looked like all the requests to
> get the right route and everything went through.) but nothing ever come
> back on the telnet screen if I went beyond the local subnet.
>
> To get this far I had to use the 9/25 version of 3c59x.c. I have run the
> vortex-diag program. I have no idea what to look for when I do this. I
> tried to check the kernel configuration from the control panel. Somehow
> /boot/module-info-2.0.34 did not exist and /boot/module-info-2.0.34-06 did
> exist so I copied it to the name the kernel configuration tool was looking
> for. It should the 3c59x.o as the only module. I've no idea what arguments
> might do me any good, so I didn't try anything.
>
> Is there a searchable archive of this list? I browsed through recent
> posting and saw problems which I thought might be similar, but I didn't see
> any that mentioned the link light on the Hub or Gateways. I saw many
> references to problems of transmitting and not receiving, but mine looks
> more like transmitting and half-ass receiving.
>
> All help and working solutions are gratefully appreciated.
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