Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC
> > are the 90x cards even supported yet?
>
> Well, I just bought one after my transceiver died on an old 3c509, and to
my disapointment, it didn't work under 2.0.30 (device or resource busy it
said).
> I went to the hardware howto, and found a link to Donald Becker's
homepage.
> There's an upgraded version of 3c59x.c which works ok with my 3c905.
> It's a drop-in replacement.
>
> The URL is:
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>
> I've haven't tried it with 100Mbps though...
I'm now running this card at 100Mbps. No problems. You shoulda seen the
FTP install go!!!
Anyway, here's my story.
I installed using May 30 diskette set (Debian 1.3.0, Kernel 2.0.29). From
there, I chose the 3c59x module (I got this information from the above URL
- like Dave mentioned, this should definitely be identified in modconf).
I tried setting various options for this driver (as per the above web page)
and, while the driver happily accepted them, loaded, and reported the
options as active, I couldn't communicate on the network. I finally went
with the default "options=7" and now everything is working great!
My /var/log/messages entries are as follows:
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: 3Com EtherLink III: Overriding PCI latency
timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is 255.
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at
0x6000, 00:60:97:b5:ad:75, IRQ 11
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: Internal config register is 16302d8,
transceivers 0xe040.
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/MII interface.
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.30-all 12/23/96
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
...
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: eth0: Initial media type MII.
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: eth0: vortex_open() InternalConfig 016302d8.
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: eth0: vortex_open() irq 11 media status
8802.
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: eth0: Media selection timer tick happened,
MII.
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: eth0: Media MII is has no indication, 8802.
Jul 4 10:25:33 inetgw kernel: eth0: Media selection timer finished, MII.
The only "funny" thing is that `ifconfig` reports eth0 as being "10Mbps
Ethernet"; however, it *is* operating at 100Mbps.
Anyway, that's my "success" story....
Later,
Kevin Traas
Systems Analyst
Baan Business Systems
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