3c905B and version 0.99F of driver

[root@ringo.hardup.com]

well I know that rh5.1 by default uses modules maybe the pci bios part of
the kernel is installed as a module.  Maybe the problem would go away if
you made sure the pci bios was compiled into the kernel and not a module.
Just a guess... I use slackware for many reasons, and redhat's approach to
their product is one of them 8-)

just my .02

skip duckwall

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Paul S. Graham wrote:

> I have installed RedHat 5.1 (version 2.0.34 of the kernel) on two Dell
> XPS R400 (Pentium II 400s) machines which came with the 3c905B cards.
> I installed version 0.99E of the driver (3c59x.c) onto the machines
> and it seems to work quite well.
> 
> Today, I noticed that a new version of the driver (0.99F) was
> available on the WWW site, so I compiled and installed it.  On both
> machines I get errors such as under debug level 2:
> 
> 	The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command ...
> 
> and ocassionally I have also gotten the message
> 
> 	A 3Com network adapter is powered down! Setting the power
> 	state ...
> 
> When the machines finally booted (after all of the network services
> timed out), they were not able to talk to the network at all.
> 
> Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else had similar experiences or knew 
> what the cause of the problems are.
> 
> In all cases, the network cards work flawlessly under WinNT 4.0 and
> also under Linux using version 0.99E of the driver so I believe the
> problems are definitely with the new version of the driver and not the 
> hardware.
> 
> --Paul
> =====================================
> Paul Graham (grahamp@ee.byu.edu)
> 459 CB, Electrical Engineering Dept.
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, Utah 84602
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