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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 14 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I tried the bzimage from SW32 net.i and it got stuck even sooner 
> > than the one from SW71, 
> 
> Was that from cold?  A clogged NIC can remain clogged 
> even after a reset.  In my experience, ISA ne2000 NICs
> are the most likely to clog.

Probably not from cold but at this point I have given up on the winbond 
906 card. 

I used the 3c5x9 diagnostic file that David Lane sent me on the 3com 
etherlink III 3c509 ISA card with the really old connector plus RJ-45.  It 
told me 0x300 and IRQ=10 and that it was set for RJ-45 and offered to 
change these defaults which I did not do.  I ran group 1 of the diagnostic 
programs and it tested okay. I don't have a loopback device to run the 
other tests.

I tried the SW71 net.i kernel on the ISA 3com 3c509 and it told me to use
the 3c509 module, not surprisingly, addres 0x300 irq=10, and it booted all
the way and told and I was able to use the card, WITHOUT specifying io or 
irq.  I transferred the 147MB temp.tgz file in about 2 minutes and then 
spent maybe 10 unpacking it and it runs perfectly.  Also fs.img.

I will go get a second 3com 3c5x9 ISA card and two more cables now, and 
play with the two 3com cards with DECnet also from David, in DOS, when I 
have more time.  Lovely card.  Most of them probably got thrown out 
because the guy at the rummage sale only keeps them if they have just one 
RJ-45 connector and none of the other styles.  We had donated cards with 
all three styles on them together.  Half his cards were ISA.  We had a 
couple of PCI cards with BNC/RJ-45 combinations and he probably threw out 
lots of those and kept the ISA cards, presumably for use in 486s which 
nobody is buying any more.

> 
> > just after md driver 0.35.   
> 
> Usually, it is the next driver (not shown on screen) 
> that is causing the problem.
> 
> > SW71 version got through scsi plip arcnet and then got stuck 
> > on com90xx.c
> 
> Probably the driver after com90xx is the problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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