Bug 114029

Summary:	3c589B network card not detected during installation
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Börje Jonsson <b.jonsson>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Karsten Keil <karsten.keil>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	behlert
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Börje Jonsson 2005-08-30 07:26:44 UTC

Downloaded boot.iso of SUSE 10.0 beta3 and tried to install it on A Dell
Latitude CPx (750 MHz).
Kernel message during boot indicated that the network card was not found. The
card is a PC-card 3COM 589B. Manually loaded the correct module but still no
network card detected by the kernel.
Same error with ACPI disabled.

Network card works with Ubuntu Linux (5.04) and Windows 2000 on the same hardware.

Comment 1 Olaf Kirch 2005-08-30 07:39:35 UTC

Stefan, Karsten - either a problem with PCMCIA or with the NIC driver.

Comment 2 Karsten Keil 2005-08-30 08:00:28 UTC

We need at least the product IDs of this card. 
'pccardctl info' or 'cardctl info' should give you this info in a installed 
system (e.g. Ubuntu).

Comment 3 Börje Jonsson 2005-08-31 21:26:44 UTC

bj@osis:~$ cardctl info
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PRODID_1="3Com Corporation"
PRODID_2="3C589"
PRODID_3="TP/BNC LAN Card Ver. 2a"
PRODID_4="000002"
MANFID=0101,0589
FUNCID=6


Also, this card works with SUSE 9.3 installation program.

Comment 4 Olaf Kirch 2005-09-01 11:43:54 UTC

Could this be another case of the pci_unassigned_resource issue Olaf H 
mentioned?

Comment 5 Karsten Keil 2005-09-01 12:13:26 UTC

Yes, probably, since the IDs are included in the driver. 
Only a mini installation CD which a patched kernel can prove this.

Comment 6 Christian Zoz 2005-09-01 12:18:21 UTC

beta3 did not initialize sockets properly on all bridge types. beta4 should fix
that.

Does that card need a cis upload? We currently don't do that during installation.

Comment 7 Karsten Keil 2005-09-01 12:51:14 UTC

How can I see if a cis upload is needed ? 
But first a quick test with BETA4 mini CD should rule out the specific Beta3 
issue.

Comment 8 Christian Zoz 2005-09-01 13:44:55 UTC

E.g.in the driver source. The id table entry is made with
PCMCIA_MFC_DEVICE_CIS_MANF_CARD or another macro containig 'CIS'.

Or at runtime there is a firmware event.

Comment 9 Karsten Keil 2005-09-01 13:53:36 UTC

No here are not such a entry for this card, but for others in this driver 
(3c589_cs).

Comment 10 Christian Zoz 2005-09-01 14:26:56 UTC

Can you test this card in a running SL 10.0 system?

If i undesrtood correctly, you had problem to install over this card.

Comment 11 Börje Jonsson 2005-09-02 08:10:30 UTC

The card now works in Beta4. Successfully installed Suse 10.0 beta4 over the
network. Thanks!

Comment 12 Christian Zoz 2005-09-02 08:17:27 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112907 ***