Re: Selecting a pci ethernet card.
Our card is a brand new 3c905TX in a Gateway PPro system, which arrived
on my desk March 30. I installed Debian 1.2 ... it found the card as
soon as I installed the "3c590" module from the modules disk. Here is
the info from my card, which may or may not be helpful:
"3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xff00, 00:60:97:98:34:09, IRQ 9"
Also, the card generates an "Unknown PCI device (10b7:9050). Please
read include/linux/pci.h" warning in the messages - I haven't gotten
around to doing anything about it.
The card is indeed PnP, but that's not the end of the world. If you got
the card new it should have come with a utility disk from 3com which
lets you fiddle with the settings. Also, Becker's driver is supposed to
be aware of the various registers and deal with them. In my experience,
PnP network cards are ok as long as you don't reboot to Win95 or some
other PnP OS now and then, as they like to mess with the settings. i
had that problem with a 3c509 - taking it out of PnP mode with the
utility disk solved the problem.
Nathan
On Sat, 3 May 1997, Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote:
:I have a 3com 3c900combo, and I know a person with the 3c905, and even
:with the driver, the cards will simply not "go". Is yours an older card
:or something?? Do you have any suggestions?? I think the problem is mine
:seems to be plug and pray (no hope for me if that's true)
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:On Sat, 3 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
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:> Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 12:53:11 -0500 (CDT)
:> From: Nathan E Norman <nnorman@cfni.com>
:> To: Chris Brown <CBROWN@seitz.com>
:> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
:> Subject: Re: Selecting a pci ethernet card.
:> Resent-Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 13:54:26 -0400
:> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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:> We use a 3com 3c905TX 10/100 Mbps PCI card, and it performs quite well,
:> thanks to Donald Becker's wonderful drivers. I believe it uses the
:> "3c590 Vortex" driver in the kernel. I had no problems installing
:> Debian 1.2 on the machine straight out of the box. We've never had any
:> errors or strange behavior.
:>
:> On the other hand, I have heard of problems with the Intel cards. That
:> may be due to many manufacturers bundling them with systems, and thus
:> there are more of them out there .. I have no personal experience with
:> them.
:>
:> Cheers,
:> Nathan
:>
:> On 3 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
:>
:> :
:> : Very shortly I need to get an order in for new server parts one
:> :of the things that I haven't dealt with before is pci bus ethernet
:> :cards. Which cards and drivers are the most stable and which the
:> :best performing? Most reliable is probably more important.
:> :
:> :
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