Rebooting one of the machines gave me the following boot messages;
notice the two "vortex_open()" messages right at the end.
Rebooting into 2.0.3 got the network working again.
Could there be a problem in enabling both 3c503 and 3c590 cards?
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000facd0
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb190
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1c0
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30892k/32768k available (740k kernel code, 384k reserved, 752k data)
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.4 (root@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de) (gcc version 2.7.2) #10- Mon Jul 8 16:17:10 MET DST 1996
Real Time Clock Driver v1.07
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 0K size
Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
aic7xxx: BurstLen = 8 DWDs, Latency Timer = 32 PCLKS
aic7xxx: AHA-2940 Rev B.
aic7xxx: devconfig = 0x500.
aic7xxx: Reading SEEPROM...done.
aic7xxx: Extended translation enabled.
aic7xxx: Using 16 SCB's after checking for SCB memory.
AHA-2940 (PCI-bus):
irq 11
bus release time 40 bclks
data fifo threshold 100
SCSI CHANNEL A:
scsi id 7
scsi selection timeout 256 ms
scsi bus reset at power-on enabled
scsi bus parity enabled
scsi bus termination (low byte) enabled
aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code...done.
aic7xxx: Resetting the SCSI bus...done.
PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 3.2/3.1/3.0
scsi : 1 host.
aic7xxx: Scanning channel A for devices.
aic7xxx: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset(0xf).
Vendor: IBM Model: DORS-32160 Rev: S82C
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
aic7xxx: Target 2, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset(0xf).
Vendor: IBM Model: DPES-31080 Rev: S31Q
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
aic7xxx: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 4.0MHz, offset(0xf).
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3601TA Rev: 0725
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2118144 [1034 MB] [1.0 GB]
Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is 255.
eth0: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0x6000, 00:a0:24:57:ee:81, IRQ 10
Internal config register is 120010, transceivers 0xe138.
8K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, 10Mbs AUI interface.
3c59x.c:v0.25 5/17/96 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sdb: sdb1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 72288k swap-space
eth0: vortex_open() InternalConfig 00120010.
eth0: vortex_open() irq 10 media status 0800.
Here's my .config:
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_INET_PCTCP=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT=y
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL2=y
CONFIG_VORTEX=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
CONFIG_SMB_LONG=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_RTC=y