On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 14:09:00 +0700 Francesco Potorti` ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
>
> > The subject says it all: I am installing a Debian 1.3.1 system on a
> > brand new PC with a 3c900 Combo board. Since I have a Buslogic
> > Flashpoint SCSI card, I used the disks under the special/ directory,
> > which use 2.1.30. Loading the 3c59x module seems to work, because the
> > module correctly recognises the board. It then prints the following
> > messages:
> >
> > 3c59x.c:v0.30-all 12/23/96 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 3Com EtherLink III: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32,
> > new value is 255.
> > loading device 'eth0'...
> > eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps/Combo at 0xd400, 00:60:08:12:4d:ef, IRQ 12
> > Internal config register is 10302d8, transceivers 0xe138.
> > 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
> >
> > Which is okay (I think), apart from the fact that the used interface
> > is really the AUI. Then I run /etc/init.d/network, obtaining these
> > messages:
> >
> > eth0: initial media type 10baseT.
>
> Have you tried running the 3Com setup program (under DOS) and set the
> card not to use Plug-And-Play mode ? And also maybe select the media
> type manually ?
I had a similar set-up where I needed to use the AUI interface. I found
that the autoselect mechanism got fooled and I had to set the media type
manually at boot time (or at module load time). I think it was options=1,
but you ought to check the doc's for sure. (I would, but my system is not
accessible at the moment.)
Hope this helps,
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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