Re: 3C509C Odd Behavior

[Andrew Morton]

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.