Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Avi Schwartz <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I tried the list but received no response at all.  I am willing 
to give it another try though.  Here is the information:

 was very happy with the way 8.2 installed on my Laptop at home last 
night.  It was a breeze to setup even my wireless network.

Happy, I went this morning to work, plugged the ethernet cable into the 
laptop's built-in ethernet port and then disaster... I cannot connect 
to the network.

The laptop (an IBM  Thinkpad A21p with a built-in mini-pci 3com 3C556B) 
worked fine with previous versions of SuSE, using the same driver.  It 
also works fine with Gentoo Linux.  Luckily,  I have two HDs, the other 
one on which Gentoo is installed, so at least I was not out of 
commission, but I am not sure how to proceed from here.

lsmod shows that the correct module is loaded (3c59x).  The messages 
file shows the following:

PCI: Enabling device 00:03.0 (0000 -> 0003)
...
00:03.0: 3Com 3c556B Laptop Hurricane at 0x1800. Vers LK1.1.16

At this point something must go wrong since all information regarding 
this card shows the values ff:

PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:03.0 to 64
  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, IRQ 11
    product code ffff rev ffff.15 date 15-31-127
00:03.0: CardBus functions mapped f0101000->d98be000
Full Duplex Capable
    Internal config register is ffffffff, transceivers 0xffff.
    1024K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx Split, autoselect/<invalid 
transceiver>
    Enabling bus-master transmits and early receives.
00:03.00: scatter/gather enabled , h/w checksums enabled
eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete! status=0xffff
eth0: command 0x2804 did not complete! status=0xffff
eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! status=0xffff
last message repeated 2 times.

ifconfig shows a mac address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.

I hope I didn't make a mistake in the text above.  I have to take a 
snapshot of the screen with my digicam and then type the text 
manually...

Any idea what may the problem be?

Avi

On Monday, Apr 28, 2003, at 13:40 America/Chicago, Christopher D. 
Reimer wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Avi Schwartz wrote:
>
> > "Please consider that our free installation support has a defined 
> > scope.
> > Unfortunately, configuration of network cards is not covered within
> > this scope, so please understand that we cannot answer the support
> > requests you have
> > submitted."
> >
> > So what now, I am just SOL?
>
> I think this is what the email list is for...
>
> Christopher Reimer
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Avi Schwartz
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