0.99E & 0.99H on 3c905b

[Donald Becker]

On 28 Feb 1999, Oliver Graf wrote:

> Subject: 0.99E & 0.99H on 3c905b
> If got the following Problem after switching to kernel 2.2.2 (from
> 2.2.0pre4acWHATEVER):
> after loading the module (options=12), my hub shows me 100TX beat. But when I
> initialize the interface, the hub & card both go back to 10T.

Solution: don't pass a module option to v0.99H.

> This does not happen with the 0.99E version of the driver.

v0.99E was broken with autosensing on some 3c905B chip types.

> I will try the WOL version later this week, after I got the new mainboard
> which supports this feature.

Excellent.  I have gotten very few reports.  I was expecting that everyone
would immediately try it out.  But perhaps it's like here -- all of the
new machines with WOL headers are servers and are not turned off.  Only the
older machines without WOL are available to test new stuff.

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