On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Dany Said wrote:
> I am getting 2 3c905b-tx 3com NICs. I remember people saying that they
> had faced problems with the NIC's Linux drivers.
>
> I would like to now if the drivers are now stable, and if you recommend me
> getting these cards, or some other brands.
The setup I have here involves having 2 network cards in the same linux
box. For some time this was 2 NE2000 contemptable cards, and the network
was 10Base2 based. I decided to switch to 10BaseT, but due to the
equipment I had available, thought it best to use only one 3c905.
The computer promptly rebooted with a kernel with both drivers in it, but
no matter what I put in the lilo.conf, the computer _always_ assigned eth0
to the PCI based 3c905, rather than the ISA ne2000, which became eth1.
This even with lines like:
append="ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1"
where eth0 is the information about the NE2000. In the end, I've shovelled
both 3coms into the server and played about a bit. For the 2 hours uptime
I've had, they appear to be working perfectly acceptably.
Cheers,
Simon
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