> > 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 -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
