i strongly suggest upgrading the driver, i run 1.0.0e on all my systems. the older one has some problems on the newer cards.
nate On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Patrick Hamel wrote: phamel >Hi, phamel > phamel >I recently bought a new 10/100Mb hub and I have problem running my phamel >3c905B-Tx to 100bTx. phamel > phamel >What happens is this: phamel > phamel >[WinNT, Win98] phamel >- All fine, link comes up at 100/full as per EEPROM autoselection. phamel > phamel >[Linux (Debian potato (Dec 99) with 2.2.13 kernel)] phamel >During boot and before modules are loaded, link shows up at 100/full phamel >Module 3c59x is loaded, link goes down (fraction of second) phamel >Media type is overided (i have options 3c59x options=12 in my phamel >/etc/modules.conf) phamel >Link comes back up at 10btx/half phamel > phamel >when trying this with debug=6 in the options, it says something about phamel >not finding a link beat at 100b-Tx / full, then 100b-Tx / half phamel > phamel >as per my recollection of IEEE auto neg it is normal to go down to 10bTx phamel >/Half as it is the next step in auto neg. phamel > phamel >3c59x is version 0.99H phamel > phamel >Both machines use 3c905B-Tx card, one is from Q2 1998 the other is on an phamel >SMP machine and was bought in Q4 1999. phamel > phamel >Same problem on both PC. phamel > phamel > phamel >I also tried the 3com 3c90x.c driver (1.0.0) the result is even worse phamel >(link goes down and never comes back up). phamel > phamel >I will be playing with the 3c59x Version 0.99L sometime tonight. phamel > phamel >Anyone got this solve before??? phamel > phamel >Thanks phamel > phamel >Patrick H. phamel > phamel > phamel >-- phamel >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null phamel > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:59pm up 190 days, 10:21, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.04, 1.00
