can not ping to recently installed networki nterface 1

[amalik]

I installed 3Com Fast EtherLink XL PCI (3C905) on a box running SCO 5.0.5. During the boot I am getting the following error message
WARNING: idistributed: cannot handle interrupts from PCI device
(handler F00E6AA4, device 0/12/0)

I was able to configure the card and hwconfig looks like this
name=d5A0 base=0xE400 offset=0x800 vec=10 dma=- type=DS21041/TP addr=00-80-C8-3B-B3-6B
name=X25 base=0x300 offset=0x7 vec=7 dma=- Memory mapped at 000C0000
name=e3H base=0xE000 offset=0x3F vec=- dma=- 3Com 3C90x, unit=0
name=cd-rom vec=- dma=- type=S ha=0 id=4 lun=0 bus=0 ht=dptr

I can ping this interface. No network issue apparently.
Is this some hardware issue or a network? What the warning message means and how to resolve this

Thanks

 

[amalik]

I can ping to the interface address but can not ping to any other machine even on the same subnet.

 

[stanhubble]

do you have the release suppliment 5.0.5a installed?

there was also some problems with the e3G driver you might want to check out if there has been an update.

 

[amalik]

yes 5.0.5a is installed. swconfig output for the driver looks like this
3Com EtherLink XL PCI (3C900) 3C 5.0.5a installed

 

[PHV]

There's a problem with this line:

name=e3H base=0xE000 offset=0x3F vec=- dma=- 3Com 3C90x, unit=0

For a 3C905 NIC you must have vec=SomeNumber
Check the output of the following command :

  hw -r pci

Search for 3Com and then for InterruptLine.
HTH
PH.

 

[amalik]

i ran the command and interrupt line for 3Com card is IRQ- 0.
There is another card and is working fine and that has IRQ- 10

 

[amalik]

which IRQ should I use and how to tell which IRQ can be used without deleting some other stuff. where to change IRQ? Is it in BIOS when system startup?

 

[PHV]

Try to insert the NIC in another PCI slot.
This is Plug'n'Pray
HTH
PH.

 

[amalik]

this is the only slot available. there is eisa bus, pci-eisa bridge. being pci it is plug and play.

 

[amalik]

does this mean the slot is bad? I have not tried anything yet will do it on the weekend.

 

[amalik]

In BIOS IRQ was set to N/A. I set it to AUTO for second nic slot and everything is ok
Thanks everybody for all the help