On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:48:53PM +0200, Jens Peter Lindemann wrote: > Hello, > > I've got some strange problems with the 3c59x driver. The problem with > different versions of 3c59x in combination with the 2.2(.17)-Kernel > is: The insmod-command succeeds, I can ifconfig the device, get > link-up status at the switch, but can't get a packet of traffic, > neither in nor out. As far as I understand the output of mii-diag an > the driver's kern.info logs (see below), it seams to have problems to > correctly detect/initialize the transceiver?! > > The NICs I've got problems with are 3Com 3c905C-TX, running in > different i386-Motherboards, connected via a Cisco Catalyst 2900 XL > switch, configured to enforce 100BaseTX Half-Duplex. One of the > machines has a SMC Etherpower-II as eth0 and the 3com as eth1, but the > problems are the same on machines with a single network interface. > > The same setup works fine with kernel 2.4.2 and the driver distributed > with that one. > > For some additional problems with the 2.4-ncpfs/ipx-Code I would like > to stay with the 2.2-Kernel for a while. > > Thanks in advance, > Jens. Hi Jens, I suspect your ethernet card is 3c905CX (note: CX). If so, then use '3c59x' driver from 2.2.19 kernel. Or, you can download Andrew Morton's 2.2.19pre11 driver from <http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/>. --William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Linux/Python/LaTeX/vim, 8 CPUs. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
