3C509C Odd Behavior

I have read through the list seeing many emails on the 3c59x module, however, what I found for the recent posts was for laptops.

Here is the situation

Tyan S2466 motherboard with 3Com (3c509c) onboard nic, Intel
eepro100 pci nic. RedHat 7.2 XFS. When the machine boots, the intel card comes up fine. The 3com card appears to initialize, can be seen from the box itself, however cannot ping out to anything else, and cannot be pinged from anywhere. If I down and up the card twice, it comes up fine with no more worries. No errors are generated. The same behavior occurs with the default 2.4.9 kernel that comes with 7.2 install, and with the 2.4.18 kernel.

Any insights would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
B

Robert Scussel
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Please enable debugging with the `debug=7' module parameter and send me the logs from the whole session, including when it doesn't work, and when it does. There's more info on the debug tools in Documentation/networking/vortex.txt.

Thanks.