Bug 420
Summary: | pcmcia and 3c574 difficulties | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | novermon |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 5.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 1998-12-30 21:52:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
novermon
1998-12-14 23:07:28 UTC
I have had the exact same problem. Unfortunately the 3COM-3C574TX is considered UNSTABLE. three possible suggestions that were reported as working: 1. turn debug mode on... -DPCMCIA_DEBUG=1 2. execute /sbin/init.d/pcmcia restart 3. cardctl eject/cardctl insert (I got these suggestions from hyper.stanford.edu, however I'm not sure where the edits are supposed to be made or the distribution that it works with) As stated by the second user, the 3Com 574 is still considered experimental and therefore we recommend using a network card that is on the well-supported list. This bug was fixed in pcmcia_cs 3.0.11. Upgrading to that would remove this problem and make the 3c574 workable (if not ideal). Is there any way this might be upgraded? From the release notes: The big news is that the most serious 3c574_cs bug has been fixed. I finally got a code snippet from 3Com from their driver initialization routine, and dropping it into 3c574_cs immediately solved the problem where the card simply refused to do anything. I also added some code to monitor the transceiver status, and to also check for and sort-of recover from missed interrupts. Performance on 100baseT still stinks. |