3Com 905-b and RedHat greater than 7.2

depdiver · 08-27-2004, 04:16 PM

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,

J.W. · 08-27-2004, 05:34 PM

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

Code:

lsmod

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.

atiannicelli · 09-20-2004, 08:10 AM

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.

atiannicelli · 09-20-2004, 08:30 AM

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

"chkconfig kudzu off"

Alex

depdiver · 11-11-2004, 09:27 AM

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