I'm using a 3c905b PCI and had no problems with RH7+XFS.
In theory the NIC's chip is the same or similar to your adapter.
Also, the support is compiled in the kernel and not lodaded as module.
3c59x.c:LK1.1.11 13 Nov 2000 Donald Becker and others.
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html $Revision: 1.102.2.46 $
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x6800, PCI: Found IRQ 10 for
device 00:10.0
00:10:4b:c8:83:2c, IRQ 10
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Regards,
JP
>
> Hello,
>
> We are trying to install Linux + XFS using the SGI pre-release installation
> CD on a Dell Precision 420 system. It contains an integrated 3com 3c90x
> ethernet adapter. For some reason, the adapter is not identified at all
> during installation (installation does not ask for IP address, subnet mask,
> etc.), and after installation, Linux does not recognize any eth0 device. We
> tried adding the device through linuxconf, but after rebooting the system
> declares, "Delaying eth0 configuration". The command `ifconfig eth0` returns
> that the device could not be found. The card itself is enabled in the BIOS,
> and was fully functional under RedHat 6.2. Has anyone else had problems
> getting such a 3com network card to work with RedHat 7 + XFS, or have any
> suggestions on how to do so?
>
> Thank you,
> Ken
>
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> IT Administrator
> Torrey Mesa Research Institute
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