3COM 3C589C PCMCIA Ethernet Card

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I am trying to use the 3COM 3C589C Etherlink III Card in QNX 4.25. I can
start the pcmcia.generic adapter that supports cardbus style cards fine and
the system recognizes that the card is installed. But when I start the
Net.ether589 driver I cannot talk to the other machine in my network. Any
help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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“Curtis Cutright” <cutright@ieee.org> wrote in message
news:994j8b$7hj$1@inn.qnx.com…

I am trying to use the 3COM 3C589C Etherlink III Card in QNX 4.25. I can
start the pcmcia.generic adapter that supports cardbus style cards fine
and
the system recognizes that the card is installed. But when I start the
Net.ether589 driver I cannot talk to the other machine in my network. Any
help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Do you have the Net.ether589 ver 4.26D or latter? Before I got the updated
driver, it would not auto detect between RJ45 and BNC connectors. As a
result there was no data transmitted or received. Use ‘netinfo -l’ to check
the number of TX/RX bytes.

Check your licenses as well.

Augie Henriques.

Thanks

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Previously, Curtis Cutright wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

I am trying to use the 3COM 3C589C Etherlink III Card in QNX 4.25. I can
start the pcmcia.generic adapter that supports cardbus style cards fine and
the system recognizes that the card is installed. But when I start the
Net.ether589 driver I cannot talk to the other machine in my network. Any
help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Are you passing the port and irq to the driver on the command line? Have
you added the card type to the /etc/config/pcmcia.cards file? What is the
output from starting the driver with the -vvv switch?

Hugh.

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I just ran across a similar problem today. The activity LED on the adapter
made it appear that the adapter was working properly but I was unable to
perform any network communications. It ended up being an interrupt conflict.
Make sure that the pcmcia.cfg file is only allowing interrupts that your
hardware does not already have allocated.

Bob

“Curtis Cutright” <cutright@ieee.org> wrote in message
news:994j8b$7hj$1@inn.qnx.com…

I am trying to use the 3COM 3C589C Etherlink III Card in QNX 4.25. I can
start the pcmcia.generic adapter that supports cardbus style cards fine
and
the system recognizes that the card is installed. But when I start the
Net.ether589 driver I cannot talk to the other machine in my network. Any
help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks