3Com 905-b and RedHat greater than 7.2
 

I am new to Linux in general and have installed Redhat 7.2 installed on one of my PCs. The PC has a 3Com 905-B network card in it and it works fine. I have upgraded to Redhat 8.0 and the network card fails to load and tells me to check the cabling. (this is a dual boot machine and my MS install on the same machien works fine). I re-installed RH 7.2 and the card works fine. I installed RH 9.0 and it fails and tells me to check my cable. I re-installed RH 7.2 and it works fine. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Welcome to LQ depdiver. The first thing I'd check is that the necessary kernel module is being loaded. I've got the same kind of card and if I remember correctly the module name is something like 3c59x. As root, run the following command and you should see "3c59x" listed in the output
If it is not there, you can load it manually via the insmod or modprobe commands. Please see the man pages for more info. Good luck with it -- J.W.

Same issue with Fedora
 

I just loaded Fedora and I have a similar problem. I did an lsmod and see the 3c59x driver is loaded, but when I try to get an IP address or if I staticly assign an IP address I get no link and the light is out. I worked fine in Windows and I had a link light on reboot untill the network drivers are loaded.

A. I.

Got it
 

I did some more snooping around the internet and found that if I turn of Kudzu it works.

"chkconfig kudzu off"

Alex

Never did get it to work
 

I replace the 3com card with an intel card and solved the problem without solving the problem