problems with VIA and 3com network cards

[shoegoo 0]

I recently installed 9.1 on my athlon 1.4. Everything seemed fine with the install; however, when it finished booting I came to find that there was no network connectivity. I have an integrated VIA 6103 NIC as well as a 3Com 590 NIC installed. Both interfaces are brought up but they can only ping localhost. I cannot even ping my router. I tried the rhinefet module from www.viaarena.com to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Steve Scrimpshire 0]

If it's TPO:

 

Geoffry Coram reported in the news that he got his 3com 590 TPO to work. He had to get the alpha driver from http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers. Other drivers would be there as well. Notehttp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html

 

From: http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Howto/PCI-HOWTO-6.html

[shoegoo 0]

it isnt tpo any other ideas?

[shoegoo 0]

as an update i removed the 3com card so i am left with the via 6102, i upgraded to 9,2 rc2 but that didnt help

[liquidzoo 0]

Is there a possibility that the onboard Via card is disabled in the BIOS?

[scoopy 0]

...or vice-verse... and disable it in the bios and try using the 3Com one by itself.

[bvc 0]

also, look in /var/log/messages for any apic, irq errors which via's are well known for. Does ifconfig -a show it to be configured with an ip etc.... is eth0 brought up at boot or does that error as well?