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[Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/20/05, Steven T. Hatton <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been having a problem with my ethernet card not initializing when the
> system is booted.  This has happened on two different systems, with the same
> kind of NIC.  

[snip]

> 3c59x: vortex_probe1 fails.  Returns -22
> 3c59x: probe of 0000:00:0c.0 failed with error -22

[snip}


This seems to be a known problem with the driver.  Take a look here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg78894.html

There is a patch included on the page... everyone who's tried it says
it works, and from what I read, it's been fed back into the developer
loop.

C.