RE: 3c905 not loading with new kernel

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Clay Colburn wrote:

> The cards do load but they are never assigned IP addresses.

Ok, this is a different problem than driver not recognizing the cards :-)

> I assumed that it was from the errors at startup.... 'eth0: Dropping
> NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature....eth1: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since
> no checksum feature.'

No. This is because the Boomerang cards don't have hardware checksumming; 
but this is done in software, so nothing is wrong.

> DHCP is enabled on the network and it assigns addresses fine when I boot up
> under the OLD kernel.

OK, so you use DHCP and you don't get IP addresses when you start the 
computer. Could you re-run the DHCP client program and see if it can get 
an address ? If this works, it means that DHCP gives up too soon after the 
network is brought up. Do you by any chance have these cards connected to 
Cisco switches ?

> Here is the ifconfig and /proc/interrupts output.

eth0 doesn't show any TX packet, which means that the DHCP client never 
tried to send a request while the interface was up. Anything else looks 
fine.

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