3com905B cyclone not working

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

Hi all,

I have a problem getting a 3com905B cyclone ethernet card to work under
linux on a fresh debian 2.0 system.  The card functions OK under
win95.  I think the problem is that the card thinks the network is
100MBit ethernet, whereas it is only 10MBit.  The kernel I compiled is
2.0.34, and it prints the following:

eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe800, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, IRQ 9
1024 K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/NWay

The IRQ and address range match those from win95, the address of the
card is obviously bogus (ff:...).  I can't do as little as a ping
command to a machine on the same subnet, although ping 127.0.0.1 is OK.
Is it possible to force the card into 10MBit/s ethernet, or is there
something else I could improve on?

Eric

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