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 > > -- > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- _____ _ | ____|(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | Page me via ICQ at | |___ | | http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19022931 |______/ | or by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__/
