[vortex] Re: VP6 + 3c905 -- any working machines?

[kragen@pobox.com]

William Park <parkw@better.net> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:52:01PM +0100, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> > Can you check the inscription on your 3C905C card(s) (by opening the case)
> > to see if they are 3C905CX (notice the X at the end) ? The CX cards are
> > newly introduced by 3Com and have a small change in design: they need more
> > time to reset their Rx part. This is only added to the recent drivers.
> > If the Rx reset is not done properly, the card will not receive any
> > packet, so the described behaviour is to be expected.
> 
> Hi Bogdan,
> 
> Thanks for the pointers.  Indeed, my cards are
>     - 3c905B-TXM and 3c905CX-TXM

Maybe this explains why none of the five Dell Windows 2000
workstations our company recently purchased work correctly with Linux
--- they all work fine, except that they can't seem to receive packets
(except very occasionally).  We concluded that 3Com was manufacturing
junk these days and ditched the cards in favor of Intel cards, which
work fine.

Had the cards reported a different model number, I would have known
they needed updated drivers, but it's too late for that now.  They
looked identical to my working 3c905C cards on older machines in
/proc/pci, and mii-diag didn't help me any.