3c905-TX NIC problem

Hello!

I've got a problem with 3C905-TX NIC in Intel SR870BN4 Server.

vortex-diag says, there is a 3C920 Tornado NIC, but lspci says, there
is a 3C905-TX. As far as I understand, these NICs are similar, and
there is one driver for both: 3c59x.

The driver (3c59x) loads fine, interface raises OK, but network
does not work (ping, arping and so on).

There are also Myrinet and embedded Gigabit (on Intel's chip) NICs in
this server and they works fine.

I've checked all the cabling, tried to move the NIC into other PCI
(PCI-X) slots ... nothing helps.

I've got no ideas what to do furthermore. Any help would be highly
appreciated!

CONFIGURATION:
1. Hardware: Intel SR870BN4 Server (actually, 4 of them) with 4
Itanium-2 1GHz CPUs, 3 Gigs of memory, 1 SCSI HDD.

2. Software: RedHat 7.2 for IA-64.
   Base kernel - 2.4.7 (or maybe 2.4.9 - I don't remember) works even
   worse - the driver does not fond a NIC at all.
   Tested kernels: (from kernel.org) 2.4.18, 2.4.23, 2.4.25

P.S. The upper LED on back panel of the NIC shines Red, but the
inscription on back panel says just about Yellow - 10 Mbit/s and Green
- 100 Mbit/s. Maybe this is a bad sign?

Best regards,
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