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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:37:13 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.65: 3C905 driver doesn't work.
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:18:36PM +0100, Jos Hulzink wrote:

 > 2.5.65 doesn't connect to my network via my network card:
 > 
 > 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
 > 
 > My switch does show a link, but the dhcpcd negotiation fails, and no activity 
 > is shown.
 > 
 > All kernel logs look normal, no errors, card is detected correctly.

try booting with..
"acpi=off"
"noapic"
"acpi=off noapic"

For me, the third one gets it working again on two boxes.
Without that, packets are sent, but nothing is ever recieved.

		Dave

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