Hello, I've been fighting with various 10/100 NIC's for three days now,
including a LinkSys NC100 & LNE100TX, Netgear FA311, and now, a 3com
3c905c-TX-M. The Netgear didn't work *at all*; the LinkSys cards
worked, but were incredibly flaky; and now it appears the 3com
*somewhat* works (ie, TX light flashes when I ping another machine
on the network), but I can't actually ping any other machines
on the network. A 'cat /proc/interrupts' shows that there have
been no interrupts serviced for the card:
CPU0
1: 0 PMAC-PIC eth1
2: 0 PMAC-PIC MACE-txdma
3: 0 PMAC-PIC MACE-rxdma
4: 0 PMAC-PIC SCC-txdma
5: 4412 PMAC-PIC SCC-rxdma
6: 0 PMAC-PIC SCC-txdma
7: 0 PMAC-PIC SCC-rxdma
8: 0 PMAC-PIC AWACS out
12: 34 PMAC-PIC 53C94
13: 223409 PMAC-PIC MESH
14: 0 PMAC-PIC MACE
15: 133432 PMAC-PIC SCC
16: 0 PMAC-PIC SCC
17: 0 PMAC-PIC AWACS
18: 140 PMAC-PIC VIA
19: 0 PMAC-PIC SWIM3
20: 0 PMAC-PIC NMI - XMON
24: 9202 PMAC-PIC usb-ohci
BAD: 0
At bootup I get the following:
3c59x.c 16Aug00 Donald Becker and others
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 1/0. Updating PCI command
0014->0015.
eth1: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0x1000, 00:01:02:c1:88:c2, IRQ 1
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
And sometime after attempting to ping another machine, I get:
eth1: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.
eth1: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
Flags; bus-master 1, full 0; dirty 16 current 16.
Transmit list 00000000 vs. c0521a00.
0: @c0521a00 length 8000002a status 0001002a
1: @c0521a10 length 8000002a status 0001002a
2: @c0521a20 length 8000002a status 0001002a
3: @c0521a30 length 8000002a status 0001002a
4: @c0521a40 length 8000002a status 0001002a
5: @c0521a50 length 8000002a status 0001002a
6: @c0521a60 length 8000002a status 0001002a
7: @c0521a70 length 8000002a status 0001002a
8: @c0521a80 length 8000002a status 0001002a
9: @c0521a90 length 8000002a status 0001002a
10: @c0521aa0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
11: @c0521ab0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
12: @c0521ac0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
13: @c0521ad0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
14: @c0521ae0 length 8000002a status 8001002a
15: @c0521af0 length 8000002a status 8001002a
eth1: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
Has anyone successfully gotten the 3C905-TX-M to work on a PowerPC
box? Just FYI, the box in question is a UMAX S900 w/ Sonnet G3/350,
and the NIC is located in PCI slot 4.
I'm sure someone here has attempted to install a second ethernet
card in their PowerPC box, so if no one knows how to get this card
to work, can anyone recommend a card that *does* work? This is
driving me nuts...
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan
