Re: 3com905B cyclone not working
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: 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?
Did you try the 3c90xcfg.exe from 3Com? That sometimes works for me. I
have run into 3 905s that simply would not run under Linux, no matter
what I tried. I put them back in the giant box-o-NICs and grabbed
another one.
I have a machine here with two 905s in it; works great, but I'm running
2.0.35.
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