Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Eric
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 optain

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Umm, this is a rather simple thing to check, but it caused the ff:ff. ethernet adress on my own box: Are you sharing IRQ9 with any other cards? Including things built in to your motherboard? If you check IRQs in the Device Manager of Win9x, the _ONLY_ other thing listed as IRQ9 should be IRQ

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > 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

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
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, whe

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Lars Steinke
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 10M

3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
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