Hello,
I do have to say that after toying with the 3c905B-TX for a month or so, I
have finally gotten it to work quite well. Of course it took kernel 2.0.34
and Donald Becker's newest code: 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 to get it to work.
But now the 3Com is just cruising along, transferring about 20 Gigs a day.
david
At 08:50 AM 6/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
> The 3C905B-TX has a different chipset on it than the 3C905-TX
>does, consequently making 4.2 and 5.0's drivers both incompatible. I
>haven't tried 5.1 yet, so I have no idea if it has the new driver or not.
>Anyhow, you can still get the card working by getting Donald Becker's
>newest 3c59x.c driver from http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/.
>
>PS.: Did you miss the almost month-long discussion about this card
>earlier? :)
>
>HTH, Matt
>
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>On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, KThorpe wrote:
>
>> >Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:36:57 +0100
>> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >Has anyone used 3COM 3c905B network card in Redhat Linux 4.2 or 5.0?
>> >What do i have to do to get it working? I run kernel 2.0.30.
>>
>> We are currently runnning 3C905-TX cards on two RH5.0 boxen. They were
>> running on 4.2 before.
>>
>> The drivers on the RH CD work fine for these cards (dunno about the 'B').
>> The driver you need to compile for the kernel is the 3c590/3c900
'boomerang'
>> driver.
>>
>> You may need to disable 'plug and play' in your BIOS as well. One of our
>> systems needed this to work, the other didn't.
>>
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