[vortex] Problems getting vortex driver working for 3c905C NIC

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Herbert Huber wrote:

> we have serious problems, getting our 3c905C NIC's which come with the
> newest DELL P4 Dimesion systems working under linux-2.4.0, using the
> vortex driver...
> Jan 10 19:02:58 lxsrv13 kernel: eth0: command 0x2800 did not complete!
> Status=0x7000

I guess that this is another 905CX card. The driver in 2.4.0 is not
"ready" for it; the patch from Andrew to correct this should be in
2.4.1-pre1. (ftp://ftp.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/)

> For the 2.2 kernel series we could succesfully operate these NIC's,
> using the 3c90x.c driver...

The initial CX cards didn't operate properly even with 3c90x driver; it
seems that 3Com has at least 2 generations of these cards...

> Jan 10 19:02:44 lxsrv13 kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split,
> autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
> Jan 10 19:02:44 lxsrv13 kernel:   Media override to transceiver type 0
> (10baseT).

This indicates that you don't force any media type, but the driver honours
the EEPROM setting which is 10baseT. If you don't want to do this, you can
either pass an option to the module to force some media type or use the
DOS config tool from 3Com to change it back to autonegotiation.

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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