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From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za>
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Subject: 3Com NIC won't work!?!
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:01:35 +0200
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Hi all.

Since I have experienced problems with an SMC NIC which runs on the 'dc'
driver, I went out and bought a new 3Com 3C905 NIC, which runs on the
'xl' driver.

Ha!  Not such a simple solution...

When I boot, I get the following (beware MUA wrapping):
---
<snip>
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on
motherboard
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
<snip>
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=10de
device=01b8)> at device 8.0 on pci0
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL>
port 0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xe4800000-0xe480007f irq 5 at device 6.0 on pci1
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: xl0: reset didn't complete
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:75:bf:8d:a6
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media
interface> on miibus0
Sep  4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX,
100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
<snip>
Sep  4 11:51:58 obelix /kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout
Sep  4 11:51:58 obelix /kernel: xl0: reset didn't complete
---

Those last two messages (watchdog timeout and reset didn't complete)
repeat every minute or so.  The NIC will not talk to the network, though
'ifconfig xl0' looks healthy.  Have I done something wrong?  Does anyone
know of a fix?

I have searched the archives, but I could not find anything that looked
like a solution.

I have had to revert to the 'dc' card for now, but that one is giving me
problems of its own...

Regards,
Patrick O'Reilly.
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