Re: [parisc-linux] NIC & "searching for devices"

[Max Grabert <parisc@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:34:46 +0100, Joel Soete <soete.joel@tiscali.be> wrote:

[....]

> Yes but I encountered weird difficulties (even on a i386 box) 
> to configure a brother model 3C905B as needed:
> see this old thread <http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2003-November/021619.html>

kargellan:/home/xam# lspci
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C TX/TX-M
[Tornado] (rev 78)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX
[Cyclone] (rev 30)
0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M
[Tornado] (rev 78)
[...]

As you can see this is a ix86 machine with three 3com NICs
in it; It is running stable for almost 2 years now. Right now it is
running 2.6.11-rc4. BTW, all three network cards share one
interrupt (IRQ 11), which is also used by the USB port.

And there is also my ix86 laptop that is using a 'vortex' network
card, also running fine for almost 3 years now with many 
different linux kernel.

I'd rather say either your network card is broken/of poor quality
or there are some compatibility issues with your ix86  motherboard.
Anyway, this is going way off-topic ...


In my experience 3Com often produced okay-nice cards, but
sometimes they managed to release utter crap as well.
IMHO there are better alternatives available (Intel/DEC), 
where I don't have to take any risks.


Greetings,
  Max