Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-24 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, nate wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > I removed a TV card, and all is left is the video card and the > > network card, but still the same problem. > > i reccomend joining the 3c59x mailing list and posting there. > this is a very common probl

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-23 Thread nate
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > I removed a TV card, and all is left is the video card and the > network card, but still the same problem. i reccomend joining the 3c59x mailing list and posting there. this is a very common problem on eepro cards(im on the eepro mailing list), and

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-23 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > The other possibility is that it's sharing an interrupt with some > other card, and mobo can't handle it. Check /proc/interrupts and > try swapping cards and marking interrupts as "used by ISA" in BIOS.

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Steffen Evers wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 15:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > several days ago I posted this message to the list, and it was said that > > > it is most probably a kernel bug. > > > > > > Well, I inst

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-22 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Steffen Evers wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 15:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > > several days ago I posted this message to the list, and it was said that > > it is most probably a kernel bug. > > > > Well, I installed windoze on that computer (win98) and used the 3com's > > dr

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-22 Thread Steffen Evers
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 15:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > several days ago I posted this message to the list, and it was said that > it is most probably a kernel bug. > > Well, I installed windoze on that computer (win98) and used the 3com's > driver, but I have the same problem: when transferring huge a

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic

2002-02-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Kernel bug, most probably. > yes, but it is still unfixed in 2.4.17. Where can I report this kind of > errors anyway? Read the file REPORTING-BUGS in the kernel source. The chances of the bug being fixed if you cannot provide a very good, very comprehensi

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic

2002-02-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > > So what is the real problem here? > > Kernel bug, most probably. > yes, but it is still unfixed in 2.4.17. Where can I report this kind of errors anyway? Thanks, Sebastiaan > -- > "One di

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic

2002-02-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > So what is the real problem here? Kernel bug, most probably. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-15 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:32:12 -0500 On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:2

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread crispin
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:00:03AM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:08:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > The 3c905c is not supported by the kernel available on the 2.2r2 > > install disks. You need a newer set of install disks, or a newer > > kernel. > > > > If I

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:08:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > The 3c905c is not supported by the kernel available on the 2.2r2 > install disks. You need a newer set of install disks, or a newer > kernel. > > If I were you I'd compile a kernel on your other box and transfer it > over via sn

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 18:54, Angus D Madden wrote: > > I have a small (2 machine) home network. The gateway is > running 2.4.16 with Debian Woody. Both of the NICs on the gateway > are 3c905C's and are up and running with no problems. > > The client box also has a 3c905C. It was initially runni

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:08:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > The 3c905c is not supported by the kernel available on the 2.2r2 > install disks. You need a newer set of install disks, or a newer > kernel. > > If I were you I'd compile a kernel on your other box and transfer it > over via sn

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:26:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does the connect light come up on the NIC in the client? The NIC in the > gateway? > all lights are on, including the lights on the switch. > Thus traffic send from gateway to client doesnot get through. > yes. > Beca

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Angus D Madden
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:06:36PM -0600, Lonnie Mullenix wrote: > Just a shot in the dark, but have you had to change any on the wiring during > this process? It almost sounds like you may have a broken wire in one of the > patch cables. > > My first try would be to plug a different cable into

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread crispin
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:54:38PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > > I have a small (2 machine) home network. The gateway is > running 2.4.16 with Debian Woody. Both of the NICs on the gateway > are 3c905C's and are up and running with no problems. > > The client box also has a 3c905C. It was in

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:54:38PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > The client box also has a 3c905C. It was initially running WindowsME > with dhcp used to configure the network interface. Everything was > working fine, network wise. > > Repeated problems with the Widnows and an eventual disk fail

Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems

2002-01-14 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
Just a shot in the dark, but have you had to change any on the wiring during this process? It almost sounds like you may have a broken wire in one of the patch cables. My first try would be to plug a different cable into the NIC and see if you get the same results or not. Possibly just re-plug

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:33:35AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:17 am, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > I will install potato in a machine which have the 3c905c-tx NIC installed. > > The Debian install program (for 2.2.r2 in my case) doesn't suppot it. > > It doesn

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Michel Loos
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 14:51, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But > I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of > the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and s

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But > I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of > the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and see... >

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and see... Cheers, Marcelo On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:42:41PM +0100,

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I also use this card with woody and kernel 2.4.17. There is a kernel compilation option for it. I have a cable modem connection to the internet with this card, and use dhcpcd. The card was recognized immediately when I rebooted after recompiling my kernel, and worked just fine with dhcpcd. Cheryl

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread wsa
I have a 3c509 and it works peachy...i'm running 2.2r4and if i recall right it also went fine with .r2 without me having to download 3rd party stuff. cheers Willem At 08:33 27-12-2001 -0800, you wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:17 am, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I will install potat

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I will install potato in a machine which have the 3c905c-tx NIC installed. > The > Debian install program (for 2.2.r2 in my case) doesn't suppot it. Can I use > the linux drivers in the 3com site? if so, what are the steps? the

Re: 3c905c

2001-12-27 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:17 am, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I will install potato in a machine which have the 3c905c-tx NIC installed. > The Debian install program (for 2.2.r2 in my case) doesn't suppot it. It doesn't? Are you sure? I haven't used a 3c905 w/ Potato in a while, but I'm

Re: 3c905c?

2001-11-15 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:13:29 +0800, LM Ho wrote: >Hi, I try to install Debian 2.2 Rev 3 on i386 with 3com 3c905c. According to "install.en.pdf" on the CDROM, a proper device driver for 3c905 should be in "Compact" installation set, but this driver is not found during installation. Does anyone c

Re: 3c905C-TX NIC

2001-10-24 Thread Lance Simmons
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:30:34PM -0700, C. Cherng wrote: > I don't believe this is a very new network card so why doesn't there > appear to be any drivers for it during the installation. What you want is 3c590/3c900 series "Vortex/Boomerang" support. It's available (in the 3com section of driver

Re: 3c905C-TX NIC

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 21:30, C. Cherng wrote: > I don't believe this is a very new network card so why doesn't there > appear to be any drivers for it during the installation. Try 3c59x for it. --mike

Re: 3c905C-TX NIC

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel T. Chen
AFAIK this is supported by the 3c59x module in the install. --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, C. Cherng wrote: > I don't believe this is a very new network card so why doesn't there > appear to be any drivers for it

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:12:18PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, the > 3c509c won't work. The older driver only worked up to the 3c509b. I'm > not sure when exactly things changed, but if you're using the latest > disk images you're ok.

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-14 Thread Rich Puhek
Was is still broken that recently? I thought that potato boot disks worked ok with the 905c, and that it was broken with slink. Of course, I get confused, since I still have a bunch of 3c905b cards floating around. As for a new kernel, It's not too bad to do a boot disk with a custom kernel... of

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-14 Thread Simon Law
The 905C support was broken in 2.2.18pre21, which ships with potato. The best way to fix that is via a new kernel, but that may be messy to get on the new machine without the network. Simon On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rich Puhek wrote: > Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, t

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-14 Thread Rich Puhek
Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, the 3c509c won't work. The older driver only worked up to the 3c509b. I'm not sure when exactly things changed, but if you're using the latest disk images you're ok. --Rich Jason Majors wrote: > > The 3c59x kernel module covers tha

RE: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-13 Thread Rob Zietlow
User Subject: Re: 3c905C Drivers The 3c59x kernel module covers that card. On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0700, The Reutzels scribbled... > I want to get my NIC working and the only drivers that I found for the 3c905C are not for Debian. Could anybody help point me to the right place to g

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-13 Thread Jason Majors
The 3c59x kernel module covers that card. On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0700, The Reutzels scribbled... > I want to get my NIC working and the only drivers that I found for the 3c905C > are not for Debian. Could anybody help point me to the right place to get > these drivers so I can get

Re: 3C905c summary.

2001-04-20 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Michael Marziani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure how different our 3c905C cards could be, [ ..SNIP.. ] Unfortunately different revisions of the 3C905C can be quite different. The relatively recent 3C905CX-TX-M would not work with kernels up to and including 2.2.18 without patching the

RE: 3C905c summary.

2001-04-19 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Michael Marziani wrote: > I'm not sure how different our 3c905C cards could be, but I installed potato > 2.2r2 a few days ago (2.2.18 kernel) and simply loaded the 3c59x module on > install and the interface came up with no problems. Even pump and all > installed correctly wi

RE: 3C905c summary.

2001-04-19 Thread Michael Marziani
I'm not sure how different our 3c905C cards could be, but I installed potato 2.2r2 a few days ago (2.2.18 kernel) and simply loaded the 3c59x module on install and the interface came up with no problems. Even pump and all installed correctly without my intervention and grabbed me a DHCP lease. Ju

Re: 3c905c once again.

2001-04-15 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > 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 g

Re: 3c905c-txm driver problems

2001-01-13 Thread nate
benny k wrote: > hey, > > i'm having trouble getting the 3com driver (3c90x) to work with potato r2, > i386. i downloaded the driver from: > > http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/3c90x-1.0.0i.tar.gz in that tar should be a file called patch-2.2.5 patch the kernel your using and comp

Re: 3c905c-txm driver problems

2001-01-12 Thread Casey Webster
just use the driver already included in the kernel. The driver you want to build into the kernel/make as a module is 3c90x. -casey On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, benny k wrote: > hey, > > i'm having trouble getting the 3com driver (3c90x) to work with potato r2, > i386. i downloaded the driver from: >