#41 3Com 905b-TX not working in current versions

[Mike Ely]

output from lspci -n for the card:
00:0e.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9055 (rev 30)

Any etherboot image past 5.0.11 results in a
non-working rom - the rom loads, displays the MAC
address of the NIC, and then promptly barfs the
following error:
"Valid link not established"
It then tries unsuccessfully to probe ISA and then
cycles indefinitely. I've tried this on multiple
motherboards with multiple NICs to be sure it wasn't
chipset-specific or bad hardware, but the result is the
same everywhere. The etherboot images with 5.0.11 and
.10 work perfectly. Tried the dev versions and no joy
there either.

[Anonymous]

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Sounds like the link is being tested before it's up.
Probably needs a delay. Could you try putting a sleep(1)
just before the link test? Also if you post to the users
mailing list you'll get faster communication with the
developers as we all read that ML.

[Timothy Legge]

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If we can get a copy of the card it would be easier to
debug. I will take a look at the code in the next week or so.