Re: [Fwd: Kernel 2.4 problem with 3C905B NIC]
Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
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On 10 Jul 2003, Edward Tandi wrote: > Is this not something "reserved" in the EEPROM ROM info? Yes. But do you have any means of interpreting "reserved" ? :-) > The card failed to link with the hub. No connection whatsoever. So > either the card or the driver is taking the full-duplex eeprom setting > as gospel. For a hub you might try half-duplex, as this would have chances to succeed. In any case, when the combination is not working, you should look at the output from the diag tools to see if the MII registers look normal (in which case the driver should do its job) or not (like your initial situation). > Also, it looks like the latest version of the 3com tool will not allow > me to set the eeprom back to how I had it before. If you really want to, you can use vortex-diag. But I don't think that there is of any value... -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex