Bugzilla – Bug 114029
3c589B network card not detected during installation
Last modified: 2005-09-02 08:17:27 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.
Stefan, Karsten - either a problem with PCMCIA or with the NIC driver.
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).
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.
Could this be another case of the pci_unassigned_resource issue Olaf H mentioned?
Yes, probably, since the IDs are included in the driver. Only a mini installation CD which a patched kernel can prove this.
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.
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.
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.
No here are not such a entry for this card, but for others in this driver (3c589_cs).
Can you test this card in a running SL 10.0 system? If i undesrtood correctly, you had problem to install over this card.
The card now works in Beta4. Successfully installed Suse 10.0 beta4 over the network. Thanks!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112907 ***