I tried the Boomerang drivers from
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and those don't seem to work either.

This is getting frustrating. After spending $78.00 for "support", I
don't feel that I'm getting my money's worth.

Any ideas for getting the 3Com 3C905C TXM cards working? When I try to
do an insmod 3c59x, I get an error message that the "device or resource
is busy." When I try to specify 3c59x during the install of RH6.0, I
get an error message that it can't find the card.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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I can't speak for the other cards, but the 3C905B TX is most definitely
supported, at least in the 2.2.XX kernels. I never tried it with 2.0.XX.
It is of course a PCI card. I compiled the driver directly into the
kernel as opposed to using the module, although that shouldn't matter -
I only did that because the card is always in use so no advantage to
using a module.

Here's the relevant portion of /proc/pci

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
Medium devsel.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=10.Max
Lat=10.
I/O at 0x6c00 [0x6c01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe8000000].
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

And the relevant portion of /var/log/kern.log

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x6c00,  00:10:5a:a6:2c:da, IRQ
10
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tom

I had a similar problem with the 3com 509B card. Solution was to configure
the bios of the card with the dos routine on the support disk to NOT USE
plugg and play support. Then it worked just fine with module installation.

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FWIW, I had to compile it into the kernel itself to get it working on
boot.  You can compile it as a module and verify functionality (i.e.
pinging to a dotted quad address), but I don't know how to get the
nameserver, etc. working through rc.d on boot.

                Pat

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I got the same problem but instead of your message I don't get the "IRQ
10" in /proc/pci.
When I try to load the module it says : IRQ0 in unlikely to work ! and
sometimes the systems hangs up !
I tried using the 3c509bTx card with and without a aha152x scsi card,
and as a module and compiled in the kernel. I have a HP vectra VL
computer. I tried also to fix the IRQ of the PCI slot to 10 in the bios.
What can I do ?

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Get it at:

    ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/3c59x.c

Mike

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