Hi yall,
I'm using 2 of these cards on my pc here and it works with no prb using
the 3c59x module...
> 3C905b ethernet card uses by default 3c59x module. Using it where
> moderate payload (15 simultaneous local ftp connections), i encountered
> severe problems (lag, timeout, etc...). Local network topology can be
> responsable in part, but i also found this in /var/log/kernel/info :
> Nov 6 11:35:17 agathe kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register
> 82.
> Nov 6 11:36:57 agathe last message repeated 59 times
> Nov 6 11:38:22 agathe last message repeated 99 times
> Nov 6 11:53:09 agathe last message repeated 12 times
> Nov 6 11:54:11 agathe last message repeated 2105 times
> etc...
> Switching to 3c90x module (the one created by 3Com) solved the problem.
> At least it stopped the error messages :-)
> Maybe this last should becomes the default driver ?
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Florin http://www.linux-mandrake.com
