[vortex] 3c905C: Packet losses, but only with a switch (2nd part)

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Giuseppe Ciaccio wrote:

> My thanks to Donald and Bogdan for their suggestions.  I tried to install
> the 3c59x.c driver, version 099Q, but failed, probably due to incompats
> w.r.t. my kernel version (2.2.13).  I downloaded Linux 2.2.16, which

What problem did you have?  Read
  http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
  http://scyld.com/expert/modules.html

> contains the "unreal" v099H driver containing some fixes to autoneg for
> 3c905C.  I enabled N-WAY autoneg on both NICs (using the DOS utility)
> and enabled N-WAY autoneg in the switch.  Compiled new kernel, rebooted.

What was the boot-time message?


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