Problems with 3C905B

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Goncal Badenes wrote:

> I am trying to install RedHat Linux 5.1 on a Dell OptiPlex GX1, which comes
> with a 3C905B-TX NIC.
> 
> Apparently, Linux recognises the network card and initialises it without
> problems. However, we cannot even ping to or from other computers.
> 
> The boot message from Linux is:
> 
> Oct 13 17:47:21 pc0383 kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99 4/7/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html

You must use driver version 0.99E or later.
I think that RedHat 5.1 actually ships with v0.99E, and includes the updated
driver source in the 'kernel-source-2.0.35-2' package.  The
'kernel-2.0.35-2' package includes the old driver version.

It might be easier to get the latest driver source from
  ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/3c59x.c
and follow the directions on
  http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/modules.html

Donald Becker					  becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
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