3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) @ 10 Mbit only

[Nikolay N. Igotti]

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Gerald Fischer wrote:

> Hi Nikolay!
> 
> > > I've got a 3c905B Cyclone in my box, but it will not work at 100Mbit with
> > > linux. It does 100 Mbit with Windows :-(
> > What kernel version are you using?
> > I've the same problem with 2.0.34, but after migrating to 2.2.4,
> > and manually setting 3c905B fro Win to full duplex/100Mb it worked fine
> > now.
> 
> I tryed it with 2.0.36, 2.2.4 and now i'm running 2.2.5. No changes for my
> problem. :-(
> I tried to set the speed to dublex/100MBit, but this did not help.
Don't forget to power cicle (if you have ATX box), and reboot it, as 
3c905B sometimes crazy about it.
Hope this will help.
BTW:
what /sbin/ifconfig write to you, mine is:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:A8:BA:BD
          inet addr:192.168.205.179  Bcast:192.168.205.191 Mask:255.255.255.224
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1026424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:0 errors:51019665 dropped:577609 overruns:0
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000