Re: 3COM 3c905c-TX-M.... works, or not?
I might be able to give you a little bit of help here. First
of all, the 3C905 series does work on PowerPC machines, thanks to Donald
and all of his hard work on getting drivers made for the entire 3Com
series. As far as your problems, it appears as though it may be a
problem with how your motherboard assigns IRQs. First of all, I can
tell you straight off that it is very strange to see that your card is
being given an IRQ of 1.....it should be a lot higher than
that....onboard resources usually take that one, so that might be your
problem. Try putting the NIC in a Intel machine, and grab ahold of
the DOS diagnostics from either the disk you got with the card or the
3Com website. Run the diagnostics from a straight DOS prompt (NOT
from a DOS prompt from within Windows....F8 at boot time will get you
there). From there you can manually set the IRQ settings on your
card, and they will be written to NVRAM, so the changes will still be
there when you move the card back to your PPC machine. If this
doesn't work, try looking at the documentation of your motherboard on
assigning IRQs.
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Eric
Reischer
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CCIL Network Administrator if your
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