Hello!
My name is Andrzej Swedrzynski and I want to greet everybody on
this list as it is my first post. :-)
I've got a problem I can not solve by myself. Please help if you
can. Recently I tried to install Debian on a new computer (Intel
Duron 800/256MB Ram, 3 COM 905c network card). At first I used
Debian 2.2 (first release) but I could not get network working.
The eth0 interface is up, IP, mask and gateway are specified, but
no packet can be send. Then I downloaded the ,,compact'' suite
from debian ftp. The installation info states that ,,compact''
kernel has support for 3 COM 905c card compiled in. However no
thing changed, the eth0 is up, but network is not working.
The hardware is good. I installed Win2k and RedHat 7.0 on the sa
me computer and network is working on those systems.
I searched of course through this mailing list archive and also
archive of mailing list of 3c59x driver (which is supposed to
support 905c card). I found that there were more people having
similar problem. One of them told me that his card wasn't working
because the CPU was too fast. He sent me a patch which should
correct this. The patch changed the following (quote from his e-
mail):
> Yes, I changed all of the "...Reset" commands to have a longer
> completion poll countdown.
However the file he sent me won't compile under kernel which come
with Debian Potato 2.2 distribution. I looked into the files and
found out that 3c59x.c file from Debian kernel is last updated in
1998, but the patch has been made against the file modified in
2000. Trying to compile this file as a module results in several
compile-time errors.
Similar errors are generated when compiling the original 3Com li
nux driver for 905c card (found on 3Com website). I found that
Red Hat 7.0 uses 3Com driver for this card by default.
I do not know where to go from here to get network working under
Debian. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advan
ce.
Regards,
Andrzej
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