3com 900 problems

[Mark Brooks]

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Dear everyone,
           PLEASE could someone put me on the right path to fixing my
ethernet card here! I'm really stumped and don't know what to try next.
I'm sorry if this is a completely simple probelm, but I'm a newbie!
    I don't seem to be transmitting many (if any) packets from my
computer here.  Could someone look at my outputs for this 3com Etherlink

XL Combo (3com 900 Combo) ethernet card.  I'm using the version 0.99E
driver for the Boomerang card on a RedHat 5.1 box with a brand spanking
new 2.0.35 kernel.  I would very much appreciate ANY idea please!!!:

%ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:97:A4:52:C3
          inet addr:129.22.87.95  Bcast:129.22.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:22917 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xff00

%vortex-diag -a
vortex-diag.c:v1.05 5/22/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Found a 3Com PCI Ethernet 3c900 rev 0 at 0xff00.
 No interrupt sources are pending.
 Transceiver/media interfaces available:  10baseT 10base2 AUI.
 MAC settings: half-duplex.

%vortex-diag -e
vortex-diag.c:v1.05 5/22/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Found a 3Com PCI Ethernet 3c900 rev 0 at 0xff00.
EEPROM contents:
  0060 97a4 52c3 9001 c258 0036 4a48 6d50
  0418 0000 0060 97a4 52c3 0010 0000 0000
  00a6 0000 02d8 0103 0000 ffff 0000 0070
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
 The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0xe8a5.
Parsing the EEPROM of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang:
 3Com Node Address 00:60:97:A4:52:C3 (used as a unique ID only).
 OEM Station address 00:60:97:A4:52:C3 (used as the ethernet address).
 Manufacture date (MM/DD/YY) 2/24/97, division 6, product HJ.
Options: .
  Vortex checksum is 70 (vs. 70),Cyclone checksum is 00 (vs. ffff).

%cat /proc/interrupts
 0:      44795   timer
 1:        555   keyboard
 2:          0   cascade
10:      35227   eth0
12:       1489   PS/2 Mouse
13:          1   math error
14:      26839 + ide0
15:          0 + ide1

%dmesg
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fd850
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfd860
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd881
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 79.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30932k/32768k available (708k kernel code, 384k reserved, 744k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.

Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
alias mapping IDT readonly ...  ... done
Linux version 2.0.35 (root@path22367.PATH.CWRU.edu) (gcc version
2.7.2.3) #1 Sat Oct 10 23:08:05 EDT 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
loop: registered device at major 7
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, 6149MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, DMA
hdc: FX120T, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ppa: Version 1.42
ppa: Probing port 03bc
ppa: Probing port 0278
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of
California
PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
PPP line discipline registered.
eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps/Combo at 0xff00, 00:60:97:a4:52:c3,
IRQ 10
  8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 24, new value is
32.
3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 128516k swap-space (priority -1)
Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00

Thanks a lot just for reading this!!

Mark.

--
Mark Brooks,
Dept. Pathology,
Institute of Neuropathology,
Case Western Reserve University,
2085 Adelbert Road,
Cleveland, OH., 44106, USA.
Tel:  (216) 368 3329
Fax:  (216) 368 2456

"Footeball ...causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking,
murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience
teacheth." Philip Stubbes, Anatomie of Abuses, 1585.


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