I have a 3c905C (not a CX) and have done a network install of Debian with it using the RedHat kernel and modules. RedHat 7.0 has a working 3c90x module. The card does not work with the 3c59x (no data transfer, even after reading up everything at scyld.com). The 3Com site does have some patches at their site for the 2.0.36 and 2.2.5. Hunting the debian lists showed that you can patch up the 2.2.x kernels using the 2.2.5 patch. I did that and it works. But while transferring data (typically 1GB over a 100Mbps line) the machine starts to crawl after some time. Have not checked with the 2.4 though. \Indraneel On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:38:13PM -0300, Marcus Ramos wrote: > > > > > I suspect your ethernet card is 3c905CX (note: CX). If so, then use > > > '3c59x' driver from 2.2.19 kernel. > > > > This seems to be a veray good idea. At least that driver is working. I > > didn't find any hint that the NIC is indeed a 3c905CX since all > > messages (including the banner of the 2.2.19-driver tell me it's a > > 3c905C??! - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
