Same here, 3com nic with 3c900 chipset and 2.6.15-26-amd64-k8 kernel. output of lspci: 0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900 10BaseT [Boomerang] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (750ns min, 2000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 209 Region 0: I/O ports at b000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at f9c00000 [disabled] [size=64K]
modprobe'd the kernel module with debuging, dmesg relevant output: [ 1696.039734] eth1: Filling in the Rx ring. [ 1696.039917] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 209 [ 1696.040036] eth1: first available media type: 10baseT [ 1696.040119] eth1: Initial media type 10baseT. [ 1696.040196] eth1: vortex_up() InternalConfig 010302d8. [ 1696.040282] eth1: vortex_up() irq 209 media status 88c0. [ 1696.041511] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready [ 1697.438038] eth1: Media selection timer tick happened, 10baseT. [ 1697.438042] dev->watchdog_timeo=1250 [ 1697.438058] eth1: Media 10baseT has no link beat, 80c0. [ 1697.438060] eth1: Media selection failing, using default 10baseT port. [ 1697.438065] wrote 0x010302d8 to Wn3_Config [ 1697.438073] eth1: Media selection timer finished, 10baseT. -- nic 3c900B not working https://launchpad.net/bugs/49042 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs