I've just upgraded from Redhat 9 to Fedora 2, and neither my NIC card (a 3com 3c905c) nor my USB are working any more. lspci shows both, and I think that dmesg tells me that usb is being set up, but it doesn't mention the NIC at all. I've got a KB and mouse plugged into the USB port, and the mice don't even light up, much less work. When I look at my config file, it seems to have all the right stuff turned on for USB. For the NIC, there is no module for that 3com part, but in the config file CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y. Should that cover this board, or do I need to find a module somewhere for it?

Thanks in advance for any help. This stuff has taken a long time, and I haven't made much progress.

Here is the lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)

and the dmesg output (it mentions the ps2 mouse, but I'd really like to move back to my usb mouse and kb)

Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile@bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007fae000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007fae000 - 0000000008000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
127MB LOWMEM available.
zapping low mappings.
On node 0 totalpages: 32686
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 28590 pages, LIFO batch:6
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fd790
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL GX200 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd7a4
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL GX200 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd7cc
ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/
mapped 4G/4G trampoline to ffff3000.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=02345000 soft=02344000
PID hash table entries: 512 (order 9: 4096 bytes)
Detected 860.943 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 126344k/130744k available (1540k kernel code, 3868k reserved, 599k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 1708.03 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
Failure registering capabilities with the kernel
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f1ff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc0ce, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1090268401.4294966006:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i820 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH: chipset revision 2
ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: WDC WD204BA, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST3120026A, ATA DISK drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: Lite-On LTN483S 48x Max, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39876480 sectors (20416 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63, UDMA(66)
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(66)
hdb: hdb1
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS2++ Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 186k freed
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: hda2: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1109911
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 571263
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1680977
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 571212
EXT3-fs: hda2: 4 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
cdrom: open failed.
Adding 257032k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

When someone enable CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM, there are many 3com drivers you can modulized or hard coded in the kernel. If your kernel is set to load modules, you can go to Intel's site and download the 3com driver. You can also download it from 3com's site. Folllow the instructions to install it. You will need a compiler and kernel source code that matches your kernel version. This should on your CDs.

Linux already loaded up the key modules for USB. What is the name, brand, and model of the USB devices you are trying to setup?

modprobe 3c905c

Worth a shot.

The modprobe command doesn't work. I looked in lib/modules/kernel/drivers/net and it's not there, so I guess I need to find one, unless it's covered by the vendor_3com one. I looked at 3com's web site and they've got a very old one, for kernel 2.2 or so. Will that work?

The USB devices are a logitech mouse and keyboard.

Thanks again.

OK. I've got the NIC working now. Turns out that "modprobe 3c59x", followed by "ifup eth0", does the job. I guess the 3c905c is close enough to the 3c59x.

Stil no joy on the USB issue. Any ideas?

Closure! It all works now.

It turns out that the installation had created several different /etc/modprobe.conf* files. Modprobe.conf was empty. Modprobe.conf.anabak had the two key lines I needed:

alias eth0 3c59x
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd

When I mv'ed that file to modprobe.conf, life became good again.

Perhaps this happened because I did an "upgrade" install, instead of a fresh install?

Thanks again to those who responded.

Congrats on getting it to work PostPCMan, and welcome to LQ! -- J.W.