From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) I spent 12 hours trying to discover why I could get either computer to see each other, let alone the network. I wasn't even getting data in tcpdump. On one machine, the link light would disappear immediately after the boot was finished. The other would remain on. Both machines are Athlon 1,000MHz 512 MB ram, with the 3com #C905C NIC installed. Kudzu showed them as correctly identified. Finally, after ruling everything from the hub, cables, configuration etc., out, I replaced the 3C905C's with 3C905B's, and immediately everything worked. I would like to suggest that kernel 2.2.17-14 does not properly support the 3COM 3C905C network Interface Card. Both cards work perfectly in a Windows machine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH6.2 With ALL Updated RPM's including kernel 2.2.17-14 on two machines. 2. Configure the machines on a network and run tcpdump on one machine and ping the machine from the other one while running tcpdump in another virtual teminal. DO this from each machine. 3. You'll see that the traffic never get's to the other machines. Kudzue correctly ID's the card on uninstall as a 3C905C. Replace the NIC' s with 3C905B's and all works as it should. The 3C905C is a new version of the 3C905. Actual Results: I saw no packets being received or successuflly making it's way to the other machine. I could not ping any place including www.yahoo.com. I could do localhost pinging and see traffic to localhost in tcpdump. Expected Results: I shopuld have been able to perform common network tasks with the 3C905C installed.
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