[vortex] 3c905 [Boomerang] Problems

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Michael G. Droettboom wrote:

> I have a 3c905 Boomerang NIC integrated in a Dell Dual Pentium-II
> workstation.  I am running Debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.15.
> All was working fine, until I arrived this morning and things are strange.
...
> However, in Linux, I am unable to reach the network, where I was
> yesterday.
> 
> 3c59x.c:0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xfcc0, 00:c0:4f:a3:2a:5e, IRQ 14
>   8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:tx split, autoselect/MII interface
>   Media override to transceiver type 0 (10baseT)

This is bogus.  You shouldn't need to pass in an option to the 3c59x driver.
And if you do pass an option, you should select something harmless instead
of setting the transceiver to one that doesn't exist on the board... :-O

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