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Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected



D-Man wrote:
> 
> Are you sure about that?  The question was about a 905 series card,
> not a 590 series card.  The 905 series are PCI cards, and I believe
> the 590 series (or was it 509 series?) are ISA.

Quite sure.  The 3c905 and 3c590 are both Cyclone-series cores, I
believe that the 905 is called `Vortex', but I'm not sure.  In short,
the same instructions work for both cards.

> Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with
> Linux.  I don't know about the 3c905c.  I bought a much cheaper
> LinkSys card instead and have been very happy with it.

bash-2.04$ /sbin/lspci -v

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
(rev 30)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at ec00
        Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

bash-2.04$ /sbin/ifconfig 

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:7A:43:F4  
          inet addr:192.168.1.48  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:134505 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:63350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2
          collisions:17 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00

Looks fine to me :).  At home, though, I have a Linksys LNE100TX, and it
appears to work just as well as the 3Com here at work ;).

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