Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-09 Thread W Paul Mills
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c59x.c On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > >performance fo the 3c905 (100MBit cards) leaves a lot to be desired. The > >0.41 driver available from Donald

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >performance fo the 3c905 (100MBit cards) leaves a lot to be desired. The >0.41 driver available from Donald Becker's site is reasonably stable >with a few provisos (has problems with 16 collision retries and cable

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Rob enscribed thusly: > I may be wrong, but why compile support for 3c59x when your card is > 3c905?? get the numbers mixed up there? :) You are wrong. The 3c59x (vortex) and 3c90x (boomerang) cards are all supported by the same driver (assuming that the driver is recent enough).

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I was playing with this stuff a while back and it looks to me like the 3c900/3c905 series is an update/replacement for the 3c590/595 series. On Donald Becker's home page at cesdis: http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/ there are a couple of different driver versions for the 3c900/905 series on

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Rob
I may be wrong, but why compile support for 3c59x when your card is 3c905?? get the numbers mixed up there? :) -Rob On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Marty Leisner wrote: > > I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... > > I figured to t

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Daniel Chalef
> I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... > > I figured to try it out in windows to see if it works...couldn't > get the enet card to work... > > Installed redhat 4.2...the boomerang worked with no problem... > > (but I built a clean 2.0.30 with 3c59x support and I had

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Marty Leisner
I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... I figured to try it out in windows to see if it works...couldn't get the enet card to work... Installed redhat 4.2...the boomerang worked with no problem... (but I built a clean 2.0.30 with 3c59x support and I had no luck...)

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-05 Thread Kevin Traas
> >I installed using May 30 diskette set (Debian 1.3.0, Kernel 2.0.29). From > >there, I chose the 3c59x module (I got this information from the above URL > >- like Dave mentioned, this should definitely be identified in modconf). > > > >I tried setting various options for this driver (as per the

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 11:36:29 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: >I installed using May 30 diskette set (Debian 1.3.0, Kernel 2.0.29). From >there, I chose the 3c59x module (I got this information from the above URL >- like Dave mentioned, this should definitely be identified in modconf). > >I tried setting

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Kevin Traas
> >Well, I just bought one after my transceiver died on an old 3c509, and to my disapointment, it didn't work under 2.0.30 (device or resource busy it said). > >I went to the hardware howto, and found a link to Donald Becker's homepage. > >There's an upgraded version of 3c59x.c which works ok with

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Kevin Traas
> > are the 90x cards even supported yet? > > Well, I just bought one after my transceiver died on an old 3c509, and to my disapointment, it didn't work under 2.0.30 (device or resource busy it said). > I went to the hardware howto, and found a link to Donald Becker's homepage. > There's an upgrad

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 04 Jul 1997 01:00:34 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > >On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 CDT m* ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Dave Cinege wrote: >> > >> > I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put >> > the words "and 3c90x" on the vortex driver line in the con

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 CDT m* ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Cinege wrote: > > > > I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put > > the words "and 3c90x" on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or someone > > submit a patch. I don't know how) > > are t

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX

1997-07-03 Thread m*
> > >Dave Cinege wrote: > > Thus, and I swear I see it at least once a day, people keep asking if > the XL series is supported at all. this was the first i had heard of it, but great! thanks, m* -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 -0500, m* wrote: >Dave Cinege wrote: >> >> >> I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put >> the words "and 3c90x" on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or someone >> submit a patch. I don't know how) >> > >are the 90x cards even

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread m*
Dave Cinege wrote: > > > I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put > the words "and 3c90x" on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or someone > submit a patch. I don't know how) > are the 90x cards even supported yet? then again i have not ventured beyond v

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 10:42:01 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: > >I'm just in the process of trying to put a Linux box onto the Fast Ethernet >network here at work. My only choice for a NIC is a 3COM 3C905-TX. > >Has anyone successfully configured this card under Debian Linux? >

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Kevin Traas
Oops!!! Never mind! I did a little RTFM'ing and found what I needed! Thanks anyway, Kevin Traas -- > From: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC > Date: July 3, 1997 10:42 AM > > > I'm j

3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-03 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm just in the process of trying to put a Linux box onto the Fast Ethernet network here at work. My only choice for a NIC is a 3COM 3C905-TX. Has anyone successfully configured this card under Debian Linux? (Note, this is a 905, not a 509.) Thanks, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Baan Bus