Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:43:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > > > > > Okay. First an odd part. When the card does not work, I didn't get > > > anything in the syslog with debug=7, but I did get plenty when it works. > > > > Well that's a big hint. If no debug output comes out then the driver > > simply isn't being executed. You'll need to investigate and report on this > > further. Make sure that you've set `dmesg -n 7' of course... > > >From the original message, something is happening: > Sep 6 18:13:57 opus kernel: 0000:00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe480. Vers LK1.1.19 > Sep 6 18:13:57 opus vmunix: ***WARNING*** No MII transceivers found! > Oh, OK, I didn't look at your initial message closely enough. Every register is coming up with 0xff, so the NIC isn't powered up. There have been a couple of reports of this. I don't know why this has changed from 2.4. Suggest you try disabling (or enabling) ACPI, and see if there are any BIOS settings which might affect this. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
