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Subject: 3COM NIC Card somehow stuck in half-on mode?
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  Hello,


I have a 3Com 3C905TX Ethernet card that suddenly
refuses to work normally. I have tried turning off autonegotiate and 
specifying the various media options in ifconfig but no joy. And of 
course the situation has survived many reboots. The card is specified in 
rc.conf properly, and it shows up in dmesg, but it is not showing up 
with an IP address in ifconfig.

Any ideas?

Is there any way to debug the connection between the PCI bus and the 
card? It seems to be sensing when it is plugged in to a 10BaseT or 
100BaseT Ethernet, so I don't think it's dead..

Thank you,
Nick