Cyclone 3c905B-TX Locking Problem

[Christopher Zarrella]

Need help with an exasperating problem.  I've installed a PCI-3c905B-TX
card on my system.  I've been able to register the card with the 3c59x
v0.99H driver.  Unfortunately, when I execute the ifup command the
system completely locks.  Can't do any troubleshooting.  In fact I have
to hard boot.  I know the nic is good because this is a dual boot
Win98-Linux system and everything checks out under Windows.  This is
being installed for a cable modem DHCP connection.  Here are the system
specs

OS:  Redhat 5.0 with a 2.0.36-0.7 Kernel

Kernel Output:

Feb 24 07:47:10 One kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/dri
vers/vortex.html
Feb 24 07:47:10 One kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at
0xfc00,  00:10:4b:87:21:64, IRQ 9
Feb 24 07:47:10 One kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Feb 24 07:47:10 One kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 24,
status 7849.
Feb 24 07:47:10 One kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 0, status
7849.
Feb 24 07:47:10 One kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and
whole-frame receives.

HW:  DELL Dimension XPS266
NIC:  3Com905B-TX PCI


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Christopher Zarrella
serge@io.com
Linux user