Re: 3com905B cyclone not working
>
> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Hmmm, we had a wee bit of a problem with that card as well, but rather the
> other way round: It only ran 10 MBit on a 100MBit network with 2.0.35.
> I couldn't get it to run on 2.0.34 at all, thus I'd recommend using the
> 2.0.35 kernel from debian slink (2.1 development release).
> To solve the Media autodetection problem I then downloaded the latest test
> driver 3c59x.c from Donald Becker's site cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov and used it
> as drop-in replacement to the kernel source tree (i.e. copy it to
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/net, you might try doing this to the 2.0.34
> kernel first if you don't feel like downloading 7 Megs)...
I got this file too, and dropped it in the 2.0.35 kernel tree. It seems
this works nicely now. Only using 2.0.35 instead of 2.0.34 didn't help
much.
Thanks!
Eric
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