[expert] 3com 3c90x

[Juha O Mustajarvi]

Hello, this seems to have been subject to quite a lot of messages
lately, and yes, i've read a bunch of them.

And while they've all been helpful in many ways, my actual problem
remains still.

My mandrake 8.0 has 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI 10/100 adapter, and is
connected through DHCP. And the problem is, that the drivers for the
adapter don't seem to work.

Upon booting, the following is displayed (may be little inaccurate,
since the screen sort of flashes by):

Bringing up interface eth0
3c90x.0.gz has parameter switchdelay max  min
[FAILED]

The driver's readme identifies the switchdelay option as disabled by
default. I tried to set it manually in modules.conf as

options 3c90x switchdelay=1

and received a slightly different error (boot time) saying

unknown parameter 'M' for switchdelay
insmod failed

The problem can't reside in the connection itself, 'cos setting the
connection manually with linuxconf doesn't work while connecting a w2k
using dhcp works. I've also tried to reinstall the driver with
rpm, and to recompile it from the source codes but both result in a
screenful of various error messages from gcc / kgcc.

If anybody could give me any hints on how i could fix this problem, i'd
be really grateful (it's takem me three weeks by now, and i'm on the
verge of switching back w or going back to store to get another
adapter..). Thanks.

  Juha

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Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

[Juha O Mustajarvi]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Aleksey Naumov wrote:

 But which driver do you use for your 3C905B: 3c90x or 3c59x?

 I am trying to decide if it's worth putting more time into trying to
 compile
 the 3c90x module (I also tried it but got no further than Juha) and,
 hopefully, get it to load, or to try to fiddle with the card itself...

Well, i actually did get 3c90x to load.

By entering the following into /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 3c90x
options 3c90x switchdelay={0,0}

(the second line seems odd considering the drivers readme, which states:

OPTION: switchdelay
 Delays the driver initialiation by three seconds to allow slower
 switches to respond to the NIC initialization

 0 Disabled   [ Default ]
 1 Enabled

but it works)

and changing the line

Eth0Driver=3c59x

in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/draknet_conf

to

Eth0Driver=3c90x

Not that it'd been of much use, since now the connection just fails
without any error visible error messages...

  Juha

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