From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1; MultiZilla v1.1.33 (b)) Gecko/20021218 Description of problem: the 3c59x module that was handling all network driver operations for many NICs including the 3c556B Hurricane card isn't working with 3c556B at all anymore. mii-tool output: No MII transceiver present!. This seems to be a 2.4.20 kernel problem since I've had the same problems with Gentoo 1.4-rc2 and a custom 2.4.20 kernel as well. dmesg output: eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete! Status=0xffff eth0: command 0x2804 did not complete! Statys=0xffff and so on for about 10 lines. Kernel 2.4.18 (Red Hat 8.0) was working fine with this network card. This is happenning on an IBM Thinkpad A21m MAC address reported by ifconfig for eth0 is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot an A21m laptop or probably any computer equipped with a 3c556B Hurricane CardBus (rev 32) card 2.type `dhclient` or `ifconfig eth0 up` or `mii-tool` 3.watch as the driver seems to be unable to find or activate a transceiver. Actual Results: Many errors, no network operation possible, network adapter disabled Expected Results: Network operational Additional info: I did contact Donald Becker, the author of the module, about this but I don't really think he still maintains that module.
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