Re: 3com905B cyclone not working
I had extensive troubles with the 3C905B. I have a dual boot system with
Windows 95 and Linux. If I do a soft reboot from Windows, I get the
ff:ff:.. problem, so I always have to turn off my computer when I want to
go from Windows to Linux. Also, these cards have a documented problem
with optaining IP's via DHCP on 10Base-T networks. This problem occurs in
all 905B's up to revision 'C'.
Eric.
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:02:23PM +0200, 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?
>
> Eric
>
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