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Re: 3COM 905TX NIC driver.



On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Moshe Maor wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone installed that new card?
> I saw that the Vortex [3c59x] driver (in its new version), supports
> both 900 and 905 as well, but when I used it in my kernel, he
> recognized the card only as a 10baseT vortex...
> Only after some driver hacking (and recompilation of the kernel -
> another 3 precious minutes...;-) it recognized it correctly...

What new version are you speaking of. There were quite a number of
releases lately. I am currently using version 0.46B of the driver, 

"3c59x.c:v0.46B 9/25/97 Donald Becker 
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html

It has no problem detecting both 10Mbit 10BaseT links, 100BaseTX links,
and it uses the MII transceiever. For example:

loading device 'eth0'...
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x6900, 00:60:08:4e:4f:eb, IRQ 10
  8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
eth0: MII transceiver found at address 24.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.


Night,

--Ariel

> 
> Anyone saw this problem before? solved it in another way?
> 
> btw, PII/266Mhz with 64MB-SDRAM and UW3SCSI disks machine actually
> compiles a kernel in 3 minutes... now, that's something...
> 
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