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. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
