[vortex] GX150: Test results with Becker's 0.99V 3c59x.

Andrew Morton akpm@zip.com.au
Tue Feb 12 19:51:01 2002


Bill Cattey wrote:
> 
> The first thing Becker asked me to do took too long for me to try.
> I apologize.  We grabbed 3c59x and pci-scan from Vortex, built them
> and tested them today.  Our results?  It looks like this epoch of
> boomerang chip DOES NOT communicate with its MII's.
> 
> Dell just sent me a 3c90x driver that they allege copes with
> tempermental MII issues.  I'll let y'all know if that driver gets any
> acceptable response out of the MII's.

Oh.  I'd forgotten about 3c90x.  Yes, that's definitely a
good thing to try, even if only for forensic purposes.
 
> But we may indeed be dealing with a run of defective chips.
> 

Ugly.  But do the machines do the same thing under Windows?

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